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In plasma of direct-current glow discharge the dependence of ordered dusty structure volume, shape and density on plasma conditions were investigated. The structure is formed in a field of volume charge. In experimental investigations we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Khakhaev , Sergey Podriadtchikov

A 2D hydrodynamical model is developed and analyzed for the steady state of a driven-dissipative dust clouds confined in an azimuthally symmetric toroidal system which is in dynamic equilibrium with background unbounded streaming plasma.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Modhuchandra Laishram , Ping Zhu

A comprehensive analytical theory for nonlinear excitations related to horizontal (longitudinal, acoustic mode) as well as vertical (transverse, optical mode) motion of charged dust grains in a dust crystal is presented. Different types of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla , Bengt Eliasson

A new experimental method for creating void-free complex (``dusty'') plasmas under microgravity conditions is presented. The method is based on a pulsed operation mode of a four-channel radio-frequency generator for plasma sustainment. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 C. A. Knapek , D. P. Mohr , P. Huber

Langevin dynamical simulations are performed to investigate the formation of clusters and voids of a two-dimensional-periodic-substrate (2DPS) modulated two-dimensional dusty plasma (2DDP) driven by an oscillatory force. It is discovered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Ao Xu , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt , Yan Feng

Ordered dusty structures influence plasma conditions. This influence can be revealed, when plasma spectral characteristics change, as dusty particles are injected. For example, a variation in the atomic temperature leads to a variation in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Aleksandr Pikalev , Lidia Luizova

Dusty plasmas, composed of electrons, ions, neutral particles, and charged dust grains, exhibit self-organization phenomena such as string-like structures observed in microgravity experiments. The formation of these structures is influenced…

Dust particles immersed within a plasma environment, such as those found in planetary rings or comets, will acquire an electric charge. If the ratio of the inter-particle potential energy to average kinetic energy is large enough the…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Vasut , T. W. Hyde , L. Barge

This study investigates the filamentary structural states of microgravity dusty plasma using data from the Plasmakristall-4 (PK-4) facility on board the International Space Station. The dust particles in the PK-4 discharge are observed to…

Coulomb plasmas crystallize in a number of physical systems, such as dusty plasmas, neutron star crusts, and white dwarf cores. The crystal structure of the one component and binary plasma has received significant attention in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-12 M. E. Caplan

We comprehensively study external forcing-driven dynamical structure formation in a binary dusty plasma mixture. Using two-dimensional driven-dissipative molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate phase segregation into bands and lanes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Farida Batool , Sandeep Kumar , Sanat Kumar Tiwari

Simulations of dusty plasmas were performed using GRAPE-6, a special-purpose computer designed for gravitational N-body problems. The collective behaviour of dust particles, which are injected into the plasma, was studied by means of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keisuke Yamamoto , Yasunori Mizuno , Hiroshi Inuzuka , Yonggao Cao , Yan Liu , Kenichi Yazawa

The dynamics of a harmonically trapped three-dimensional Yukawa ball of charged dust particles immersed in plasma is investigated as function of external magnetic field and Coulomb coupling parameter using molecular dynamics simulation. It…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Hirakjyoti Sarma , Ritupan Sarmah , Nilakshi Das

In this research, formation of finite two-dimensional (2D) plasma crystals was numerically simulated. The structure was investigated for systems with various Debye length and it was found there is a transition from a complete hexagonal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-07-27 K. Qiao , T. W. Hyde

Dusty plasma can exist in a wide range, from the laboratory to Saturn's rings. The coupling parameter plays a very important role in diagnosing dusty plasma. There are two ways to deal analytically with the effect of coupling in plasma.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 J. Goswami , S. S. Kausik

A complex (dusty) plasma system is well known as a paradigmatic model for studying the kinetics of solid-liquid phase transitions in inactive condensed matter. At the same time, under certain conditions a complex plasma system can also…

The weakly nonlinear regime of transverse paramagnetic dust grain oscillations in dusty (complex) plasma crystals is discussed. The nonlinearity, which is related to the sheath electric/magnetic field(s) and to the inter--grain…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla

Collections of micrometer sized solid particles immersed in plamsa are used to mimic many systems from solid state and fluid physics, due to their strong electrostatic interaction, their large inertia, and the fact that they are large…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Land , W. J. Goedheer

In a laboratory, a two-dimensional complex (dusty) plasma consists of a low-density ionized gas containing a confined suspension of Yukawa-coupled plastic microspheres. For an initial crystal-like form, we report ideal gas behavior in this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Neil P. Oxtoby , Elias J. Griffith , Céline Durniak , Jason F. Ralph , Dmitry Samsonov

The PlasmaKristall-4 experiment on the International Space Station allows for the study of the 3-dimensional interaction between plasma and dust particles. Previous simulations of the PK-4 environment have discovered fast moving ionization…