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In space and astrophysical plasmas, violent events or instabilities inject energy into turbulent motions at large scales. Nonlinear interactions among the turbulent fluctuations drive a cascade of energy to small perpendicular scales at…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 J. L. Verniero , G. G. Howes

The low frequency, long wavelength electromagnetic waves, viz, shear Alfven wave in quantum electron-positron-ion magneto plasmas, have been examined using quantum magneto hydrodynamic model. In this model, we have considered electrons and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Zahida Ehsan , M. Shahid , Muhammad Ali Rana , Mushtaq Ahmad , Alireza Abdikian , Atif Shahbaz

Particle-In-Cell (kinetic) simulations of shear Alfv\'en wave interaction with one dimensional, across the uniform magnetic field, density inhomogeneity (phase mixing) in collisionless plasma were performed for the first time. As a result a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Tsiklauri , Jun-Ichi Sakai , Shinji Saito

The phenomenon of nonlinear wave mixing is investigated in a Yukawa one-component plasma using two-dimensional classical Langevin molecular dynamics simulations. The wave spectrum indicates that nonlinear interactions between the excited…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Ajaz Mir , Farida Batool , Sanat Tiwari , Abhijit Sen

We study the nonlinear evolution of very oblique small-scale Alfv\'en waves with $k_\perp d_i\gtrsim 1$. At these scales, the waves become significantly compressive, unlike in MHD, due to the Hall term in the equations. We demonstrate that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Alfred Mallet , Seth Dorfman , Mel Abler , Trevor Bowen , Christopher H. K. Chen

The investigation employed the reductive perturbation approach to study the nonlinear propagation of shear Alfvenic waves in an electron-positron (EP) plasma medium. Utilizing the solitary wave solution of the derivative nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 T. I. Rajib

In the approximation of linear dissipative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) it can be shown that driven MHD waves in magnetic plasmas with high Reynolds number exhibit a near resonant behaviour if the frequency of the wave becomes equal to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-18 C. T. M. Clack , I. Ballai , M. S. Ruderman

The aim of the present study is to shed light on the effects connected with thermal misbalance due to non-equal cooling and heating rates induced by density and temperature perturbations in solar active regions hosting either propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 S. A. Belov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. E. Molevich

We describe the interaction of parallel-propagating Alfv\'en waves with ion-acoustic waves and other Alfv\'en waves, in magnetized, high-$\beta$ collisionless plasmas. This is accomplished through a combination of analytical theory and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Stephen Majeski , Matthew W. Kunz

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

The linear properties of the low-frequency shear Alfv\'en waves such as those associated with the beta-induced Alfv\'en eigenmodes (BAEs) and the low-frequency modes observed in reversed-magnetic-shear DIII-D discharges (W. Heidbrink, et al…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Ruirui Ma , W. W. Heidbrink , Liu Chen , Fulvio Zonca , Zhiyong Qiu

Turbulent magnetic field fluctuations observed in the solar wind often maintain a constant magnitude condition accompanied by spherically polarized velocity fluctuations; these signatures are characteristic of large-amplitude Alfv\'{e}n…

We investigate the behaviour of nonlinear, nonideal Alfv\'en wave propagation within an inhomogeneous magnetic environment. The governing MHD equations are solved in 1D and 2D using both analytical techniques and numerical simulations. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 J. A. McLaughlin , I. De Moortel , A. W. Hood

The nonlinear dynamics of circularly polarized dispersive Alfv{\'e}n wave (AW) envelopes coupled to the driven ion sound waves of plasma slow response is studied in a uniform magnetoplasma. By restricting the wave dynamics to a few number…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 S. Roy , A. Roy , A. P. Misra

Nonlinear set of equations for inertial or slow shear Alfven wave (SSAW) in ideal electron-positron-ion (e-p-i) plasmas are presented. The analytical solution for arbitrary amplitude SSAW in such multi-component plasmas is obtained using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shahzad Mahmood , H. Saleem

We study large-amplitude, very oblique Alfv\'en waves at low $\beta$, with small gradient length scales, comparable to the ion inertial scale $d_i$. Such waves have large density fluctuations, and slight dispersion from finite-frequency and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Alfred Mallet

Context : In the linear, {\beta}=0 MHD regime, the transient properties of MHD waves in the vicinity of 2D null points are well known. The waves are decoupled and accumulate at predictable parts of the magnetic topology: fast waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. O. Thurgood , J. A. McLaughlin

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are subject to parametric decays which can have important consequences in space, astrophysical, and fusion plasmas. Though the Alfv\'en wave parametric decay instability was predicted decades ago,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feiyu Li , Xiangrong Fu , Seth Dorfman

In this work we used Particle-In-Cell simulations to study the interaction of circularly polarised Alfv\'en waves with one dimensional plasma density inhomogeneities transverse to the uniform magnetic field (phase mixing) in collisionless…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri , Jun-Ichi Sakai , Shinji Saito

Nonlinear wave--coupling is studied in a multi-species degenerate astrophysical plasma consisting of two electron species (at different temperatures): a highly degenerate main component plus a smaller classical relativistic flow immersed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 N. L. Shatashvili , S. M. Mahajan , V. I. Berezhiani