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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,416 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Surface-Wave-Sustained Argon Plasma Torch Interaction with Liquids

  • Plamena Marinova,
  • Evgenia Benova,
  • Yana Topalova,
  • Yovana Todorova,
  • Todor Bogdanov,
  • Maya Zhekova,
  • Ivaylo Yotinov and
  • Frantisek Krcma

28 November 2023

In this paper, an investigation of the interaction of a surface-wave-sustained argon plasma torch with liquids is presented. The plasma is produced by an electromagnetic wave traveling along the plasma–dielectric interface, and at the same time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,924 Views
16 Pages

Non-Linear Plasma Wave Dynamics: Investigating Chaos in Dynamical Systems

  • Raymond Ghandour,
  • Abdullah S. Karar,
  • Zaher Al Barakeh,
  • Julien Moussa H. Barakat and
  • Zia Ur Rehman

23 September 2024

This work addresses the significant issue of plasma waves interacting with non-linear dynamical systems in both perturbed and unperturbed states, as modeled by the generalized Whitham–Broer–Kaup–Boussinesq–Kupershmidt (WBK-BK)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,732 Views
11 Pages

Characteristics of EHF Wave Propagation in Hypersonic Plasma Sheaths Magnetized by Dipole Magnetic Fields

  • Bo Bai,
  • Ziyang Zhao,
  • Kai Yuan,
  • Rongxin Tang,
  • Xiaohua Deng,
  • Mingyang Mao,
  • Jiawei Xiong and
  • Kaili Wang

18 March 2022

Communication blackout is always a serious threat to the flight tasks of modern hypersonic vehicles moving in near space. EHF communication is considered as a potential solution to the blackout problem. Nevertheless, EHF waves suffer from severe atte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,756 Views
11 Pages

24 February 2020

The nonthermal diffusion effects on the dispersion equations of ion-acoustic space-charge wave (SCW) in a nonthermal plasma column composed of nonthermal turbulent electrons and cold ions are investigated based on the analysis of normal modes and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,364 Views
10 Pages

Radio communication is a vital challenge during vehicle reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere in practice, because the plasma covering the aerospace vehicle can block the communication as the spacecraft reenters the atmosphere. To investigate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,360 Views
16 Pages

Soft Mango Firmness Assessment Based on Rayleigh Waves Generated by a Laser-Induced Plasma Shock Wave Technique

  • Nayuta Arai,
  • Masafumi Miyake,
  • Kengo Yamamoto,
  • Itsuro Kajiwara and
  • Naoki Hosoya

3 February 2021

Many methods based on acoustic vibration characteristics have been studied to indirectly assess fruit ripeness via fruit firmness. Among these, the frequency of the 0S2 vibration mode measured on the equator has been examined, but soft-flesh fruit do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,858 Views
16 Pages

A one-dimensional plasma medium is playing a crucial role in modern sensing device design, which can benefit significantly from numerical electromagnetic wave simulation. In this study, we introduce a novel lattice Boltzmann scheme with a single exte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,086 Views
26 Pages

23 November 2024

The main objective of this study is to demonstrate the active influence on the location of the bow shock wave, as well as on the parameters of an aerodynamic body, of a gas discharge organized near the frontal surface, between the body and the bow sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,578 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2020

H2 plasma treatment was performed on carbon-based nonwoven fabrics (c-NFs) in a 900 W microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition system at 750 °C and 40 Torr. Consequently, the electromagnetic wave shielding effectiveness (SE) of the c-N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,485 Views
13 Pages

The transient temperature field, the velocity and pressure of plasma, and the absorption wave of fused quartz induced by millisecond-nanosecond combined pulse lasers are simulated. The theoretical model of plasma and absorption wave produced by fused...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,776 Views
25 Pages

30 August 2022

Several kinds of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods have been extensively used in the semiconductor industries for bulk crystal growth, thin film deposition, and nanomaterials synthesis. In this article, we focus on the microwave-excited surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,089 Views
11 Pages

Study on the Effect of SmFeN Content on the Wave-Absorbing Properties of SmFeN/YSZ Composite Thermal Barrier Coatings Prepared by Plasma Spraying

  • Tianni Lu,
  • Hongning Zhang,
  • Wenshu Zhang,
  • Bo Liu,
  • Zhenwei Huang,
  • Na Li,
  • Bing Yang,
  • Anguo Wang and
  • Chunzhong Liu

27 February 2025

In this study, SmFeN/YSZ thermal barrier coating (TBC) composites with SmFeN mass fractions of 25 wt.%, 30 wt.%, and 50 wt.% were synthesized using plasma spraying technology. Testing methods, including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,482 Views
13 Pages

Analysis of Wave Propagation with Different Magnetic Configurations in Helicon Plasmas

  • Bin Tian,
  • Kan Xie,
  • Bingchen An,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Su-Lan Yang and
  • Yong Cao

A two-dimensional plasma–wave interaction model, which is based on the cold collisional plasma dielectric tensor, is applied to investigate the wave propagation and power depositions under different magnetic configurations in helicon plasmas. The var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,001 Views
12 Pages

20 January 2022

The propagation of dissipative electrostatic (ion-acoustic) solitary waves in a magnetized plasma with trapped electrons is considered via the Schamel formalism. The direction of propagation is assumed to be arbitrary, i.e., oblique with respect to t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,727 Views
14 Pages

Shock Waves in Laser-Induced Plasmas

  • Beatrice Campanella,
  • Stefano Legnaioli,
  • Stefano Pagnotta,
  • Francesco Poggialini and
  • Vincenzo Palleschi

7 June 2019

The production of a plasma by a pulsed laser beam in solids, liquids or gas is often associated with the generation of a strong shock wave, which can be studied and interpreted in the framework of the theory of strong explosion. In this review, we wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,050 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2023

The behavior of acoustic waves in a rarefied high-temperature plasma is studied; as an example, the plasma of the solar corona is considered. Effects of thermal conductivity and a heating/radiative loss are taken into account; data on a temperature d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,454 Views
9 Pages

Estimation of Dense Plasma Temperature Formed under Shock Wave Cumulation

  • Valerii Sobolev,
  • Edgar Caseres Cabana,
  • Natalia Howaniec,
  • Roman Dychkovskyi,
  • Bartłomiej Jura,
  • Andrzej Bąk,
  • Sebastian Iwaszenko and
  • Adam Smoliński

2 November 2020

The research was carried out by means of implosion plasma generators with conical and hemispherical compression chambers to conduct a quantitative assessment of the boundary temperature of super dense plasma jets. It was proved experimentally that nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,602 Views
9 Pages

Electrostatic Dust-Acoustic Rogue Waves in an Electron Depleted Dusty Plasma

  • Jebun Naher Sikta,
  • Nure Alam Chowdhury,
  • Abdul Mannan,
  • Sharmin Sultana and
  • A. A. Mamun

16 April 2021

The formation of gigantic dust-acoustic (DA) rouge waves (DARWs) in an electron depleted unmagnetized opposite polarity dusty plasma system is theoretically predicted. The nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is derived by employing the reductive pe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,241 Views
42 Pages

New observational data and modeling of physical processes constantly appear in the young and rapidly developing branch of science of plasma astrophysics. However, there is a lack of theoretical studies in the field of plasma astrophysics, that could...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,511 Views
11 Pages

3 January 2021

The propagation characteristics of terahertz (THz) waves incident vertically into inhomogeneous and collisional dusty plasma with a ceramic substrate are studied using the scattering matrix method (SMM). The effects of the incident wave frequency and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,626 Views
13 Pages

16 September 2022

A warm degenerate magneto-rotating quantum plasma (WDMRQP) model consisting of a static heavy nucleus, inertial non-degenerate light nucleus, and warm non-relativistic or ultra-relativistic electrons has been considered to observe the generation of n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,307 Views
9 Pages

10 December 2021

For relatively strong magnetic fields, hydrogen atoms can have delocalized bound states of almost macroscopic dimensions. Therefore, such states are characterized by a Giant Electric Dipole Moment (GEDM), thus making them very sensitive to an externa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,108 Views
11 Pages

13 October 2022

Multicomponent plasmas are ubiquitous in astrophysics and space plasma environments. In the present manuscript, we assumed a dusty plasma system consisting of negative and positive dust species and kappa-distributed electrons and ions. The analysis i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
795 Views
16 Pages

On Cavitons Generated by the Nonlinear Plasma Waves in HF Heating Experiments at HAARP

  • Spencer Kuo,
  • Min-Chang Lee,
  • Arnold Snyder and
  • Brenton Watkins

12 November 2025

Analysis of nonlinear plasma waves, formulated and applied for ionospheric HF heating experiments, indicates that Langmuir/upper hybrid waves excited by parametric instabilities can evolve into traveling solitary waves accompanied by self-induced cav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,706 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2023

Solar chromosphere and photosphere, as well as solar atmospheric structures, such as prominences and spicules, are made of partially ionized plasmas. Observations have reported the presence of damped or amplified oscillations in these solar plasmas,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,751 Views
12 Pages

Integral Equations for Problems on Wave Propagation in Near-Earth Plasma

  • Danila Kostarev,
  • Dmitri Klimushkin and
  • Pavel Mager

1 August 2021

We consider the solutions of two integrodifferential equations in this work. These equations describe the ultra-low frequency waves in the dipol-like model of the magnetosphere in the gyrokinetic framework. The first one is reduced to the homogeneous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,236 Views
12 Pages

6 August 2019

We present results of the studies of internal gravity waves based on altitude-time dependences of the temperature and the density of the neutral component and the velocity of the vertical plasma motion at altitudes of the lower ionosphere (60–1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,658 Views
17 Pages

27 October 2021

The propagation of electron-acoustic waves (EAWs) in an unmagnetized plasma, comprising (r,q)-distributed hot electrons, cold inertial electrons, and stationary positive ions, is investigated. Both the unmodulated and modulated EAWs, such as solitary...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
913 Views
7 Pages

In this paper, an equation describing nonlinear wave phenomena on the surface of magnetically active plasma in the approximation of the complete homogeneity of processes along the direction of the constant magnetic field is obtained. One of its solut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
565 Views
25 Pages

Kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) are investigated in an Oxygen–Hydrogen plasma with electrons following the behavior of rq-distribution in an upper ionosphere. We aim to study low-frequency and long wavelengths at 1700 kms in the upper ionosp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,134 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2024

Turbulence implies nonlinear wave–wave coupling, and determining cause and effect of either is important to understand mixing responsible for enhanced number, momentum, or energy (NME) transport. To explain the identification of parent and daug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,719 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Study on Positronium Detection under Millimeter Waves Generated from Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

  • Sun-Hong Min,
  • Chawon Park,
  • Kyo Chul Lee,
  • Yong Jin Lee,
  • Matlabjon Sattorov,
  • Seonmyeong Kim,
  • Dongpyo Hong and
  • Gun-Sik Park

3 October 2022

Positronium (Ps) is an unstable system created by the temporary combination of electrons and negative electrons, and Ps generation technology under resonance conditions at millimeter waves is emerging as a new research topic. In general, Ps can be ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,110 Views
9 Pages

Electrostatic Ion-Acoustic Shock Waves in a Magnetized Degenerate Quantum Plasma

  • Sharmin Jahan,
  • Booshrat E. Sharmin,
  • Nure Alam Chowdhury,
  • Abdul Mannan,
  • Tanu Shree Roy and
  • A A Mamun

26 August 2021

A theoretical investigation has been carried out to examine the ion-acoustic shock waves (IASHWs) in a magnetized degenerate quantum plasma system containing inertialess ultra-relativistically degenerate electrons, and inertial non-relativistic posit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,441 Views
14 Pages

This study employs the simultaneous phase-shift interferometry (SPSI) system to diagnose laser-induced plasma (LIP) and shock wave (SW). In high-density LIP diagnostics, the Faraday rotation effect causes probe light polarization deflection, renderin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,585 Views
11 Pages

Modulational Instability of Ion-Acoustic Waves in Pair-Ion Plasma

  • Sharmin Jahan,
  • Rubaiya Khondoker Shikha,
  • Abdul Mannan and
  • A A Mamun

29 December 2021

The modulational instability (MI) of ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) is examined theoretically in a four-component plasma system containing inertialess electrons featuring a non-thermal, non-extensive distribution, iso-thermal positrons, and positively as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,174 Views
11 Pages

Dust-Acoustic Nonlinear Waves in a Nanoparticle Fraction of Ultracold (2K) Multicomponent Dusty Plasma

  • Fedor M. Trukhachev,
  • Roman E. Boltnev,
  • Mikhail M. Vasiliev and
  • Oleg F. Petrov

30 December 2021

The nonlinear dust-acoustic instability in the condensed submicron fraction of dust particles in the low-pressure glow discharge at ultra-low temperatures is experimentally and theoretically investigated. The main discharge parameters are estimated o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,585 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2014

We review studies of two kinds of dips in spectral line profiles emitted by plasmas—dips that have been predicted theoretically and observed experimentally: Langmuir-wave-caused dips (L-dips) and charge-exchange-caused dips (X-dips). There is a princ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,419 Views
36 Pages

21 August 2020

The need to understand the process by which particles, including solar wind and coronal ions as well as pickup ions, are accelerated to high energies (ultimately to become anomalous cosmic rays) motivate a multi-fluid shock wave model which includes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,479 Views
17 Pages

29 November 2021

The application of laser ignition in the aerospace field has promising prospects. Based on the constant volume combustion chamber, the laser ignition of CH4/O2/N2 mixture with different initial pressure, different laser energy, different equivalence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,373 Views
14 Pages

Probe Diagnostics and Optical Emission Spectroscopy of Wave Plasma Source Exhaust

  • Andrei I. Shumeiko,
  • Viktor D. Telekh and
  • Sergei V. Ryzhkov

22 September 2022

Wave plasma sources (WPSs) were first proposed in the 1970s for electric propulsion (EP), and these research and development processes culminated in the flight test in 2021 of the WPS-based thruster REGULUS. Recently, new approaches to WPS use have e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,790 Views
27 Pages

7 May 2016

The Hamiltonian character of the ray tracing equations describing the propagation of the Lower Hybrid Wave (LHW) in a magnetic confined plasma device (tokamak) is investigated in order to study the evolution of the parallel wave number along the prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,983 Views
20 Pages

Short-Wave Asymptotics for Gaussian Beams and Packets and Scalarization of Equations in Plasma Physics

  • Anatoly Yu. Anikin,
  • Sergey Yu. Dobrokhotov,
  • Alexander I. Klevin and
  • Brunello Tirozzi

31 August 2019

We study Gaussian wave beam and wave packet types of solutions to the linearized cold plasma system in a toroidal domain (tokamak). Such solutions are constructed with help of Maslov’s complex germ theory (short-wave or semi-classical asymptoti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,621 Views
18 Pages

26 September 2020

A modified precise-integration time-domain (PITD) formulation is presented to model the wave propagation in magnetized plasma based on the auxiliary differential equation (ADE). The most prominent advantage of this algorithm is using a time-step size...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,651 Views
10 Pages

The New Wave Structures to the Fractional Ion Sound and Langmuir Waves Equation in Plasma Physics

  • Mahmoud A. E. Abdelrahman,
  • S. Z. Hassan,
  • R. A. Alomair and
  • D. M. Alsaleh

In this paper, we consider the fractional ion sound and Langmuir waves (FISALWs) equation. We apply the unified solver technique in order to extract some new solutions for the FISALWs equation. The fractional derivative is defined in the sense of a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,946 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2023

Compression corner shock wave/boundary layer interaction (SWBLI) is a typical shock wave/boundary layer interaction (SWBLI) problem in supersonic/hypersonic flows. In previous studies, the separation flow is usually caused by a single shock wave. How...

  • Article
  • Open Access
876 Views
18 Pages

27 May 2025

In this research, we investigate the phenomenon of multistability and complex dynamic behaviors in plasma waves by utilizing advanced mathematical techniques. We examine how fractional-order derivatives influence plasma wave stability by applying the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,100 Views
24 Pages

Operating Characteristics of a Wave-Driven Plasma Thruster for Cutting-Edge Low Earth Orbit Constellations

  • Anna-Maria Theodora Andreescu,
  • Daniel Eugeniu Crunteanu,
  • Maximilian Vlad Teodorescu,
  • Simona Nicoleta Danescu,
  • Adrian Stoicescu,
  • Alexandru Cancescu and
  • Alexandru Paraschiv

29 September 2024

This paper outlines the development phases of a wave-driven Helicon Plasma Thruster for cutting-edge Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations. The two-stage ambipolar electric propulsion (EP) system combines the efficient ionization of an ultra-compact h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,833 Views
45 Pages

Turbulence and Microprocesses in Inhomogeneous Solar Wind Plasmas

  • Catherine Krafft,
  • Alexander S. Volokitin and
  • Gaëtan Gauthier

11 April 2019

The random density fluctuations observed in the solar wind plasma crucially influence on the Langmuir wave turbulence generated by energetic electron beams ejected during solar bursts. Those are powerful phenomena consisting of a chain of successive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,021 Views
14 Pages

Correlation between Density of Reentry Plasma and Frequency of Attenuated Electromagnetic Signals Based on Laboratory Measurements

  • Gi-Won Shin,
  • Jae-Hyeon Kim,
  • Sun-Hee Lee,
  • In-Young Bang,
  • Ji-Hwan Kim,
  • Yeon-Soo Park,
  • Hee-Tae Kwon,
  • Woo-Jae Kim and
  • Gi-Ching Kwon

15 January 2023

Upon reentering the Earth’s atmosphere from space, a reentry vehicle becomes enshrouded in an ionization layer. This layer is known as the reentry plasma sheath and is caused by aerodynamic heating. Owing to the oscillation of charged particles...

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