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We present numerical simulations and explore scalings and anisotropy of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our study covers both gas pressure dominated (high beta) and magnetically dominated (low beta) plasmas at different…

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By means of magnetohydrodynamic equations in a non relativistic multi fluid framework, we study the behavior of small amplitude perturbations in cold Quark Gluon Plasmas (QGP). Magnetohydrodynamic equations, along with the QGP equation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-01 Azam Ghaani , Kurosh Javidan

We present a two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model of quasi-stationary, two-dimensional magnetic reconnection in an incompressible plasma composed of electrons and ions. We find two distinct regimes of slow and fast reconnection. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Leonid M. Malyshkin

This paper is the third in a series of investigations by the authors. The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfv\'en waves is investigated in a 2D $\beta=0$ plasma in the neighbourhood of two dipoles. We use both numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 J. A. McLaughlin , A. W. Hood

We consider a series of MHD simulations in which a small amplitude, transverse velocity perturbation is introduced into a complex magnetic field. We analysed the deformation of the wave fronts as the perturbation propagates through the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Jack Reid , Alan Hood

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a magnetized plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , G. Brodin , M. Servin

We investigate the nonlinear interaction between a relativistically strong laser beam and a plasma in the quantum regime. The collective behavior of the electrons is modeled by a Klein-Gordon equation, which is nonlinearly coupled with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

The chiral magnetic effect emerges from a miroscopic level, and its interesting consequences have been discussed in the dynamics of the early universe, neutron stars and quark-gluon plasma. An instability is caused by anomalous electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Yasufumi Kojima , Yuri Miura

The nonlinear interaction, due to quantum electrodynamical (QED) effects, between an electromagnetic pulse and a radiation background is investigated, by combining the methods of radiation hydrodynamics with the QED theory for photon-photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin , Lennart Stenflo

Non-uniformity plays an important role for MHD waves. For a uniform plasma of infinite extent the MHD waves can be subdivided in two classes with distinct properties. The first class contains the Alfv\'en waves. The Alfv\'en waves are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Marcel Goossens , Iñigo Arregui , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Tom Van Doorsselaere

This paper investigates the changes in spatial properties when magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves undergo resonant damping in the Alfv\'en continuum. The analysis is carried out for a 1D cylindrical pressure-less plasma with a straight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-18 M. Goossens , I. Arregui , R. Soler , T. Van Doorsselaere

We develop a two dimensional, self-consistent, compressible fluid model to study evolution of Alfvenic modes in partially ionized astrophysical and space plasmas. The partially ionized plasma consists mainly of electrons, ions and…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh

A nonlocal coupling mechanism to directly transfer the energy from large-scale Magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) Alfven waves to small-scale kinetic Alfven waves is presented. It is shown that the interaction between a MHD Alfven wave and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-21 Zhao Jinsong , Wu Dejin , Lu Jianyong

A high energy density plasma embedded in a neutral gas is able to launch an outward-propagating nonlinear electrostatic ionization wave that traps energetic electrons. The trapping maintains a strong sheath electric field, enabling rapid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Haotian Mao , Kathleen Weichman , Zheng Gong , Todd Ditmire , Hernan Quevedo , Alexey Arefiev

Extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) is a fluid plasma model generalizing ideal MHD by taking into account the impact of Hall drift effects and the influence of electron inertial effects. XMHD has a Hamiltonian structure which has received…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Christophe Cheverry , Nicolas Besse

Linear properties of kinetic Alfv\'{e}n waves (KAWs) and kinetic slow waves (KSWs) are studied in the framework of two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics. We obtain the wave dispersion relations that are valid in a wide range of the wave frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 J. S. Zhao , Y. Voitenko , M. Y. Yu , J. Y. Lu , D. J Wu

We apply the many-particle quantum hydrodynamics including the Coulomb exchange interaction to magnetized quantum plasmas. We consider a number of wave phenomenon under influence of the Coulomb exchange interaction. Since the Coulomb…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Mariya Iv. Trukhanova , Pavel A. Andreev

Gravitational waves (GW) propagating through a magnetised plasma excite low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In this paper we investigate whether these waves can produce observable radio emission at higher frequencies by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is an important agent of energetic particle acceleration. Focusing on the compressible properties of magnetic turbulence, we adopt test particle method to study the particle acceleration from Alfv\'en,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Jianfu Zhang , Fuyuan Xiang

We show here that a purely kinetic approach to the excitation of waves by cosmic rays in the vicinity of a shock front leads to predict the appearance of a non-alfvenic fastly growing mode which is the same that was found by Bell (2004) by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-13 Pasquale Blasi , Elena Amato