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Collisionless plasmas, such as those encountered in tokamaks, exhibit a rich variety of instabilities. The physical origin, triggering mechanisms and fundamental understanding of many plasma instabilities, however, are still open problems.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Valeria Ratushnaya , Ravi Samtaney

We numerically investigate transverse stability and instability of so-called cnoidal waves, i.e., periodic traveling wave solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, under the time-evolution of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-22 C. Klein , C. Sparber

We consider the stability and instability of periodic travling waves for Korteweg-de Vries type equations with fractional dispersion and other nonlinear dispersive equations. We establish that a constrained minimizer for the related…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

We study the amplitude modulation of ion-acoustic wave (IAW) packets in an unmagnetized electron-ion plasma with two-temperature (cool and hot) electrons in the context of the Tsallis' nonextensive statistics. Using the multiple-scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Shalini , N. S. Saini , A. P. Misra

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

We study the linear stability of weakly magnetized differentially rotating plasmas in both collisionless kinetic theory and Braginskii's theory of collisional, magnetized plasmas. We focus on the very weakly magnetized limit that is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Eliot Quataert , Tobias Heinemann , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We describe an algorithm that computes the linear dispersion relation of waves and instabilities in relativistic plasmas within a Vlasov-Maxwell description. The method used is fully relativistic and involves explicit integration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J Petri , J G Kirk

We consider the one-dimensional ions dynamics in weakly collisional plasmas governed by the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system under the Boltzmann relation with the small collision frequency $\nu>0$. It is observed in physical experiments that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li , Dongcheng Yang , Tong Yang

In the study of plasma, particularly in applications involving strong laser-plasma interactions, the propagation of a strong electromagnetic wave induces relativistic velocities in the electron flow. Given such conditions, the wave…

We solve the Vlasov equation for the longitudinal distribution function and find stationary wave patterns when the distribution in the energy error is Maxwellian. In the long wavelength limit a stability criterion for linear waves has been…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephan I. Tzenov

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

A theoretical investigation has been made of electron acoustic wave propagating in unmagnetized collisionless plasma consisting of a cold electron fluid and isothermal ions with two different temperatures obeying Boltzmann type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-14 S. A. El-Wakil , E. M. Abulwafa , E. K. El-Shewy , H. M. Abd-El-Hamid

Sardar et al. [Phys. Plasmas 23, 073703 (2016)] have studied the stability of small amplitude dust ion acoustic solitary waves in a collisionless unmagnetized electron - positron - ion - dust plasma. They have derived a Kadomtsev…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Sankirtan Sardar , Anup Bandyopadhyay , K. P. Das

Starting from the Vlasov-Maxwell equations describing the dynamics of various species in a quasi-neutral plasma immersed in an external solenoidal magnetic field and utilizing a technique known as the hydrodynamic substitution, a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Stephan I. Tzenov

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) can be used as a model of phenomena in physical systems ranging from waves on deep water to pulses in optical fibers. In this paper, we establish that every one-dimensional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 John D. Carter , Harvey Segur

It is shown in linear approximation that in the case of one-dimensional problem of transverse electron waves in a half-infinite slab of homogeneous Maxwellian collisionless plasma with the given boundary field frequency two wave branches of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 V. N. Soshnikov

The nonlinear propagation of electrostatic dust-acoustic (DA) waves in a magnetized dusty plasma consisting of negatively charged mobile dusts, nonthermal fast electrons and trapped ions with vortex-like distribution is studied. Using the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 A. P. Misra , Y. Wang

The wave instability acts in astrophysical plasmas to redistribute energy and momentum in the absence of frequent collisions. There are many different types of waves, and it is important to quantify the wave energy density and growth rate…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Seong-Yeop Jeong , Clare Watt

Fast magnetosonic waves are among the fundamental oscillation modes of astrophysical plasmas. To study their dynamics, we carry out numerical simulations of the wave turbulence kinetic equation, which describes the evolution of the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Nicolás Pablo Müller , Sébastien Galtier

Ion sound waves are studied in a plasma subject to gravitational field. Such systems are interesting by exhibiting a wave growth that is a result of energy flux conservation in inhomogeneous systems. The increasing wave amplitude gives rise…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 P. Guio , H. L. Pecseli