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Nonlinear regimes of one-dimensional parametric instabilities of long-wave plasma waves are considered for the cases when the average plasma field energy density is less (Zakharov's model) or greater (Silin's model) than the plasma thermal…

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The Alfven wave is analyzed in case of one quasineutral plasma propagating with some constant speed $v_0$ through another static quasineutral plasma. A dispersion equation is derived describing the Alfven wave coupled with the flow driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 J. Vranjes

The relationship between a decaying strong turbulence and kinetic instabilities in a slowly expanding plasma is investigated using two-dimensional (2-D) hybrid expanding box simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field…

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

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are ubiquitous in space plasmas and a main component of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the heliosphere. As pump waves they are prone to parametric instability by which they can generate cyclotron and…

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

Linear properties of kinetic Alfv\'{e}n waves (KAWs) and kinetic slow waves (KSWs) are studied in the framework of two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics. We obtain the wave dispersion relations that are valid in a wide range of the wave frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 J. S. Zhao , Y. Voitenko , M. Y. Yu , J. Y. Lu , D. J Wu

A Hamiltonian two-field gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs) in a magnetized electron-proton plasma, retaining ion finite-Larmor-radius corrections and parallel magnetic field fluctuations, is used to study the inverse cascades…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 George Miloshevich , Dimitri Laveder , Thierry Passot , Pierre-Louis Sulem

The Earth's magnetosheath provides a high $\beta$ (ratio of electron thermal pressure to magnetic pressure) plasma environment where kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs) strongly influence turbulence and energy dissipation. This study investigates…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Mani K. Chettri , Hemam D. Singh , Vivek Shrivastav , Britan Singh , Rupak Mukherjee

Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves (KAWs) are generated in magnetized space and laboratory plasmas due to a continuous shear Alfv\'en wave (SAW) spectrum and, unlike SAWs, are characterized by microscale perpendicular structures of the order of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Livio De Fabrizio

We investigate dispersive and kinetic effects on the evolution of a two-dimensional kinked Alfv\'en wave packet by comparing results from MHD, Hall-MHD and hybrid simulations of a low-$\beta$ plasma. We find that the Hall term determines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Anna Tenerani , Carlos González , Nikos Sioulas , Chen Shi , Marco Velli

In the previous works harmonic, phase-mixed, Alfven wave dynamics was considered both in the kinetic and magnetohydrodynamic regimes. Up today only magnetohydrodynamic, phase-mixed, Gaussian Alfven pulses were investigated. In the present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 D. Tsiklauri

Context. Spacecraft measurements have shown Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves propagating in the terrestrial magnetosphere at lower wavenormal angles than predicted by linear Vlasov theory of electron-proton plasmas. To explain these observations, it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Nicolás Villarroel-Sepúlveda , Rodrigo A. López , Pablo S. Moya

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

The parametric decay of finite-size Alfv\'en waves in nonperiodic low-beta plasmas is investigated using one-dimensional hybrid simulations. Compared with the usual small periodic system, a wave packet in a large system under the absorption…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Feiyu Li , Xiangrong Fu , Seth Dorfman

An ion beam can destabilize Alfv\'en/ion-cyclotron waves and magnetosonic/whistler waves if the beam speed is sufficiently large. Numerical solutions of the hot-plasma dispersion relation have previously shown that the minimum beam speed…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 Daniel Verscharen , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

The stability of a collisionless, magnetised plasma to local convective disturbances is examined, with a focus on kinetic and finite-Larmor-radius effects. Specific application is made to the outskirts of galaxy clusters, which contain hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Rui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz

The propagation of ionic perturbations in a dusty plasma is considered through a three-species kinetic simulation approach, in which the temporal evolution of all three elements i.e. electrons, ions and dust particles are followed based on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 S. M. Hosseini Jenab , F. Spanier

A phenomenological turbulence model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves in a magnetizedcollisionless plasma, able to reproduce the non-universalpower-law spectra observed at the sub-ion scales in the solar wind and the terrestrial magnetosphere, is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem

Context. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. In magnetic waveguides resonant absorption due to plasma inhomogeneity naturally transfers wave energy from large-scale motions to small-scale motions. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Soler , J. Andries , M. Goossens

Aims. To determine the effect of the Hall term in the generalised Ohm's law on the damping and phase mixing of Alfven waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies in uniform and non-uniform equilibrium plasmas. Methods. Wave damping in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. W. Threlfall , K. G. McClements , I. De Moortel