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Low frequency dust acoustic waves (DAW) were excited in a laboratory argon dusty plasma by modulating the discharge voltage with a low frequency AC signal. Metallic graphite particles were used as dust grains and a digital FFT technique was…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 P. Bandyopadhyay , G. Prasad , A. Sen

We study the effect of the velocity distributions of the plasma particles on the equilibrium charge of dust particles which suffer collisional charging, considering different forms of both isotropic and anisotropic Kappa distributions for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Luiz Fernando Ziebell , Rudi Gaelzer

A linear theory of dust acoustic (DA) and dust ion-acoustic (DIA) waves in a self-gravitating collisional dusty plasma contaminated by variable-charge impurities is presented for a self-consistent closed system. The ion-drag force arising…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Amar P Misra , K. Roy Chowdhury , A. Roy Chowdhury

We present turbulent properties of electrostatic drift waves in a nonuniform collisional plasma composed of magnetised electrons and ions in the presence of immobile dust particles. For this purpose, we derive a pair of nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 A. Kendl , P. K. Shukla

The influence of an inhomogeneous screened electric field on the charging of dust grains in a thermal dusty plasma is studied. The electric field of charged grains is considered within the cell approach, where the problem is reduced to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Dmitrii Yu. Mishagli

The impacts of dust density inhomogeneity and dust size distribution (DSD) on linear dust acoustic (DA) wave propagation have been investigated theoretically in an inhomogeneous unmagnetized dusty plasma having powerlaw DSD. Two different…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Gadadhar Banerjee , Sarit Maitra , Chitrita Dasgupta

We examine linear dust acoustic waves (DAWs) in a dusty plasma with strongly correlated dust grains, and discuss possibility of a twisted DA vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). For our purposes, we use the Boltzmann…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. K. Shukla

The dust-acoustic waves and their stability in the permeating dusty plasma with the Maxwellian velocity distribution are investigated. We derive the dust-acoustic wave frequency and instability growth rate in two limiting physical cases…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Zhipeng Liu , Jiulin Du

An analytical model is presented for the description of nonlinear dust-ion-acoustic waves propagating in an unmagnetized, collisionless, three component plasma composed of electrons, ions and inertial dust grains. The formulation relies on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

We discuss a novel mechanism of dust acceleration which may dominate for particles smaller than $\sim0.1~\mu$m. The acceleration is caused by their direct electrostatic interactions arising from fluctuations of grain charges. The energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Ivlev , A. Lazarian , V. N. Tsytovich , U. de Angelis , Thiem Hoang , G. E. Morfill

In this article we are going to consider dust acoustic wave in dusty plasma whose constituents are inertial negative charged dust particles, Boltzmann distributed electrons and non-thermal distributed ions with variable dust charge. Using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Gh. Forozani , M. Mohammadi

It is well known that the form of grain size distribution strongly influences the linear dielectric response of a dusty plasma. In previous results [IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 29, 182 (2001)], it was shown that for a class of size…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael A. Raadu , Muhammad Shafiq

The charging of conducting or alternatively insulating dust grains in a supersonic plasma flow with a directed photon flux is studied by the particle-in-cell method. The electron emission modifies the surface charge distribution on a grain…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-16 W J Miloch , S V Vladimirov , H L Pecseli , J Trulsen

Nonlinear self-modulation of the dust acoustic waves is studied, in the presence of non-thermal (non-Maxwellian) ion and electron populations. By employing a multiple scale technique, a nonlinear Schrodinger-type equation (NLSE) is derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ioannis Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

A master equation was formulated to study intrinsic charge fluctuations of a grain in a plasma as ions and primary electrons are attached to the grain through collisional collection, and secondary electrons are emitted from the grain. Two…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Babak Shotorban

Using a fluid model, the plasma densities, electron temperature and ion Mach number in front of a powered electrode in different plasma discharges is computed. The dust charge is computed using OML theory for Maxwellian electrons and ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Victor Land , Angela Douglass , Ke Qiao , Lorin Matthews , Truell Hyde

Magneto-acoustic waves in partially ionized plasmas are damped due to elastic collisions between charged and neutral particles. Here, we use a linearized two-fluid model to describe the influence of this collisional interaction on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 David Martínez-Gómez

Theoretical and numerical studies are presented of the nonlinear amplitude modulation of dust-acoustic (DA) waves propagating in an unmagnetized three component, weakly-coupled, fully ionized plasma consisting of electrons, positive ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

Charging of dust grains in low-pressure plasmas is reviewed critically. A theory based on the Fokker-Planck equation and orbital motion limited approximation is proposed. The theory predicts that dust grains can acquire a positive charge in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 S. N. Abolmasov , E. V. Romashchenko , P. Roca i Cabarrocas

The dust charging processes in the collections of electrons and ions in the nonequilibrium dusty plasma with power-law distributions are investigated on the basic of a new q-distribution function theory in nonextensive statistics. Electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Jiulin Du