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A theoretical investigation has been made to study the modulation stability/instability of three-dimensional dust-ion-acoustic wave packets in the warm magnetized complex plasma system in the presence of nonthermal distributed electrons and…

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A new version of the invariant imbedding theory for the propagation of coupled waves in inhomogeneous media is applied to the mode conversion of high frequency electromagnetic waves into electrostatic modes in cold, magnetized and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee

The common feature of sheared flows of an ideal fluid and plasma in magnetic field is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This instability is described by identical equations in mentioned two cases. The wave equation for the eigenmodes in the…

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In this study, global nonlinear electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations are conducted to investigate turbulence in the Internal transport barrier (ITB) region of the EAST tokamak discharge with weakly reversed magnetic shear. Linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Yuehao Ma , Pengfei Liu , Jian Bao , Zhihong Lin , Huishan Cai

A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation is derived to investigate the modulational instability (MI) of ion-acoustic (IA) waves (IAWs) in a double pair plasma system containing adiabatic positive and negative ion fluids along with super-thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 N. Ahmed , A. Mannan , N. A. Chowdhury , A. A. Mamun

I calculate the linear stability of a stratified low collisionality plasma in the presence of a weak magnetic field. Heat is assumed to flow only along magnetic field lines. In the absence of a heat flux in the background plasma, Balbus…

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We have investigated linear and nonlinear dynamics of ion-temperature-gradient driven drift mode for Maxwellian and non Maxwellian pair-ion plasma embedded in an inhomogeneous magnetic field having gradients in ion's temperature and number…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Javaria Razzaq , Zahida Ehsan , Arshad M. Mirza

Electron current layers, which form in various natural and laboratory plasmas, are susceptible to multiple instabilities, with tearing being a prominent instability driven by current gradients. Tearing is considered a potential mechanism…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Sushmita Mishra , Gurudatt Gaur , Bhavesh G. Patel

Simulations are performed to investigate turbulent properties of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional (2D) magnetic electron drift vortex (MEDV) modes in a nonuniform unmagnetized plasma. The relevant nonlinear equations governing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

In a recent one-dimensional numerical fluid simulation study [Saxena et al., Phys. Plasmas 13,032309 (2006)], it was found that an instability is associated with a special class of one-dimensional nonlinear solutions for modulated light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Vikrant Saxena , Amita Das , Sudip Sengupta , Predhiman Kaw , Abhijit Sen

In this work we study the propagations of normal frequency modes for quantum hydrodynamic (QHD) waves in the linear limit and introduce a new kind of instability in a double-degenerate plasma. Three different regimes, namely, low,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

We study collective processes for an electron beam propagating through a background plasma using simulations and analytical theory. A new regime where the instability of a Langmuir wave packet can grow locally much faster than ion frequency…

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We consider a low-temperature plasma within a newly developed MHD Fluid model. In addition to the standard terms, the electron spin, quantum particle dispersion and degeneracy effects are included. It turns out that the electron spin…

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We report on a first-principles numerical study of magnetic reconnection in plasmas with different initial ion-to-electron temperature ratios. In cases where this ratio is significantly below unity, we observe intense wave activity in the…

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Dynamics of an spatially limited electron beam in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma is considered in the framework of weak turbulence theory when the temperature of the beam significantly exceeds that of surrounding plasma. The…

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We study the influence of kinetic-scale Alfv\'enic turbulence on the generation of plasma radio emission in the solar coronal regions where the plasma/magnetic pressure ratio $\beta $ is smaller than the electron/ion mass ratio…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Olena Lyubchyk , Eduard Kontar , Yuriy Voitenko , Nicolas Bian , Donald Melrose

A new quasi-neutral model describing the Weibel instability of a high-current relativistic beam propagating through a resistive plasma is developed. It treats beam electrons as kinetic particles, and ambient plasma as a non-relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anupam Karmakar , Naveen Kumar , Gennady Shvets , Oleg Polomarov , Alexander Pukhov

Over the last decade, substantial efforts have been devoted to understanding the stability properties, transport phenomena, and long-term evolution of weakly-collisional, magnetized plasmas which are stratified in temperature. These studies…

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