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In order to understand the conditions which lead a highly magnetized, relativistic plasma to become unstable, and in such cases how the plasma evolves, we study a prototypical class of magnetostatic equilibria where the magnetic field…

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Longitudinal and transverse behavior of magnetic field of relativistic nonlinear three-dimensional plasma wave is investigated. It is shown that the magnetic field of the wave is different from zero and performs higher frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. G. Khachatryan

The stability of shear flows of electrically conducting fluids, with respect to finite amplitude three-dimensional localized disturbances is considered. The time evolution of the fluid impulse integral, characterizing such disturbances, for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 V. Levinski , I. Rapoport , J. Cohen

Low frequency longitudinal wave instability in magnetized high correlation dusty plasmas is investigated. The dust charging relaxation is taken into account. It is found that the instablity of wave is determined significantly by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Bai-Song Xie

The Vlasov system of equations for a plasma is given in relativistic form, and using the correct expression for the "Lorentz" force, that is the one guaranteing real self-consistency.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evangelos Chaliasos

We present a linear stability analysis of a two-dimensional fluid model used to study the plasma dynamics in the scrape-off layer of tokamaks. The model equations are based on the Braginskii fluid equations under the assumptions of drift…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Fryderyk Wilczynski , David W. Hughes , Sven Van Loo , Wayne Arter , Fulvio Militello

For a magnetised plasma in a straight magnetic guide field, we derive a set of four-dimensional kinetic equations, which can capture electromagnetic turbulence in the drift kinetic limit. To do so, we start from the gyrokinetic equations,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Bogdan Teaca

We study the plasma-vacuum interface problem in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics for the case when the plasma density does not go to zero continuously, but jumps. In the vacuum region we consider the Maxwell equations for electric and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-21 Yuri Trakhinin

Shafranov's virial theorem implies that nontrivial magnetohydrodynamical equilibrium configurations must be supported by externally supplied currents. Here we extend the virial theorem to field theory, where it relates to Derrick's scaling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ludvig Faddeev , Lisa Freyhult , Antti J. Niemi , Peter Rajan

The filamentation instability of the electromagnetic (EM) beam in an underdense plasma with high level of degeneracy is examined by means of the momentum equation, continuity equation and Maxwell's equations. It has been demonstrated that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 R. M. Goshadze , V. I. Berezhiani , Z. Osmanov

Turbulence driven by gyrokinetic instabilities is largely responsible for transport in magnetic fusion devices. To estimate this turbulent transport, integrated modeling codes often use mixing length estimates in conjunction with reduced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 C. D. Stephens , P. -Y. Li

A general Hamiltonian theory for the adiabatic motion of relativistic charged particles confined by slowly-varying background electromagnetic fields is presented based on a unified Lie-transform perturbation analysis in extended phase space…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin Tao , Anthony Chan , Alain Brizard

Nonlinear energy-conserving drift-fluid equations that are suitable to describe self-consistent finite-beta low-frequency electromagnetic (drift-Alfven) turbulent fluctuations in a nonuniform, anisotropic, magnetized plasma are derived from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alain J. Brizard

Conditions for the existence and stability of de Sitter space in modified gravity are derived by considering inhomogeneous perturbations in a gauge-invariant formalism. The stability condition coincides with the corresponding condition for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni , Shahn Nadeau

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 magnetohydrodynamic dynamo equation is derived within general relativity, using the covariant 1+3 approach, for a plasma with finite electric conductivity. This formalism allows for a clear division and interpretation of plasma and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mattias Marklund , Chris Clarkson

In the study on nonlinear wave-wave processes in an ionosphere and a magnetosphere usually the main attention is paid to investigation of plasma turbulence at well developed stage, when the wide spectrum of plasma wave is present. On the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Volokitin , B. Atamaniuk

In our previous papers we proposed a continuum model for the dynamics of the systems of self-propelling particles with conservative kinematic constraints on the velocities. We have determined a class of stationary solutions of this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 V. I. Ratushnaya , D. Bedeaux , V. L. Kulinskii , A. V. Zvelindovsky

We analyze the linear stability of a dilute, hot plasma, taking into account the effects of stratification and anisotropic thermal conduction. The work is motivated by attempts to understand the dynamics of the intracluster medium in galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-04 Steven A. Balbus , Christopher S. Reynolds

Because of the finiteness of the life span and boundedness of the physical space, the more reasonable or physical choice is the tempered power-law instead of pure power-law for the CTRW model in characterizing the waiting time and jump…

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