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Compressional plasma perturbations may cause thermal misbalance between plasma heating and cooling processes. This misbalance significantly affects the dispersion properties of compressional waves providing a feedback between the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 S. Belov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. Molevich , D. Zavershinskii

The large abundance of electrically neutral particles has a remarkable impact on the dynamics of many astrophysical plasmas. Here, we use a two-fluid model that includes charge-neutral elastic collisions and Hall's current to study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 David Martínez-Gómez

Using Hall-MHD theory, we focus on the resonant interaction between three kinetic Alfv\'{e}n waves. We thus derive three coupled equations which govern this process. It turns out that these equations contain the same coupling coefficient,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. K. Shukla , G. Brodin , L. Stenflo

Our study investigates the properties of Alfv\'en waves in partially ionised solar plasmas in the presence of steady, field-aligned, flows of charged and neutral particles. Our work aims to understand how such flows modify wave propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Nada F. Alshehri , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun , Gary Verth

In this paper, we study the weakly-compressive high-frequency plasma waves which are superposed on a large-amplitude Alfv\'en wave in a multi-fluid plasma consisting of protons, electrons, and alpha particles. For these waves, the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch

We investigate the interaction of a plane, linearly polarized, Alfvenic pulse with a one-dimensional, perpendicular to the magnetic field, plasma density inhomogeneity in the strongly nonlinear regime. Our numerical study of the full MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov , T. D. Arber

In this letter, we provide an experimental demonstration of amplitude-dependent dispersion tuning of surface acoustic waves interacting with nonlinear resonators. Leveraging the similarity between the dispersion properties of plate edge…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Setare Hajarolasvadi , Paolo Celli , Brian L. Kim , Ahmed E. Elbanna , Chiara Daraio

The large-scale dynamics of most conventional space and astrophysical plasmas are predominantly governed by Alfv\'en modes, which are low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic modes existing in magnetized media. At scales smaller than the ion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Stanislav Boldyrev , Mikhail Medvedev

Nonlinear relations among frequencies and phases in modulational instability of circularly polarized Alfven waves are discussed, within the context of one dimensional, dissipation-less, unforced fluid system. We show that generation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Yasuhiro Nariyuki , Tohru Hada

In this Letter, weak turbulence theory is used to investigate interactions among Alfven waves and fast and slow magnetosonic waves in collisionless low-beta plasmas. The wave kinetic equations are derived from the equations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Two novel nonlinear mode coupling processes for reversed shear Alfven eigenmode (RSAE) nonlinear saturation are proposed and investigated. In the first process, RSAE nonlinearly couples to a co-propagating toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Shizhao Wei , Yahui Wang , Peiwan Shi , Wei Chen , Ningfei Chen , Zhiyong Qiu

This work is an extension of Kaghashvili [1999] where ion-cyclotron wave dissipation channel for Alfv\'en waves was discussed. While our earlier study dealt with the mode coupling in the commonly discussed sense, here we study changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-10 Edisher Kh. Kaghashvili

Turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon in space and astrophysical plasmas, driving a cascade of energy from large to small scales and strongly influencing the plasma heating resulting from the dissipation of the turbulence. Modern theories…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. G. Howes , D. J. Drake , K. D. Nielson , T. A. Carter , C. A. Kletzing , F. Skiff

This work, which extends Squire et al. [ApJL, 830 L25 (2016)], explores the effect of self-generated pressure anisotropy on linearly polarized shear-Alfv\'en fluctuations in low-collisionality plasmas. Such anisotropies lead to stringent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Jonathan Squire , Alexander Schekochihin , Eliot Quataert

{This work aims to investigate the spectral structure of the parallel electric field generated by strong anisotropic and balanced Alfvenic turbulence in relation with the problem of electron acceleration from the thermal population in solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. H. Bian , E. P. Kontar , J. C. Brown

With first-principles kinetic simulations, we show that a large-scale Alfv\'en wave (AW) propagating in an inhomogeneous background decays into kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs), triggering ion and electron energization. We demonstrate that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Fabio Bacchini , Francesco Pucci , Francesco Malara , Giovanni Lapenta

Nonlinear interaction of three acoustic waves in a sandy sediment is studied in the frequency range where there is a considerable wave velocity dispersion. The possibility of an experimental observation of the generation of a sound wave by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 N. I. Pushkina

Collisionless regime kinetic models for coherent nonlinear Alfven wave dynamics are studied using fluid moment equations with an approximate closure anzatz. Resonant particle effects are modelled by incorporating an additional term…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. V. Medvedev , P. H. Diamond

Weakly ionized plasmas can be found in the lower layers of the solar and stellar atmospheres and in structures such as prominences and spicules. A variety of density perturbations and bulk flows detected in these environments have been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 David Martínez-Gómez

We develop a two dimensional, self-consistent, compressible fluid model to study evolution of Alfvenic modes in partially ionized astrophysical and space plasmas. The partially ionized plasma consists mainly of electrons, ions and…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh