In this chapter we present an overview of the excitation, propagation, and absorption of linear plasma waves in collisionless, spatially uniform, multicomponent, magnetized non-Maxwellian plasma characterized by a ...

Using a quasitoroidal set of coordinates with coaxial circular magnetic surfaces, Vlasov equation is solved for collisionless plasmas in drift approach and a perpendicular dielectric tensor is found for large aspect ratio ...

The large-scale dynamics of plasmas is well described within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). However, whenever the ion density of the plasma becomes sufficiently low, the Hall effect is likely to become ...

In a previous paper, sufficiently large-amplitude and left-handed ‘‘pump waves’’ propagating parallel to the background magnetic field were shown to stabilize a moderately dense beam in a proton plasma against the ...

Depending on the physical conditions involved, beam plasma systems may reveal new unstable regimes triggered by wave instabilities of different natures. We show through linear theory and numerical simulations the existence ...

We use particle-in-cell simulations to study the nonlinear evolution of ion velocity space instabilities in an idealized problem in which a background velocity shear continuously amplifies the magnetic field. We simulate the ...

It has been recently shown that the presence of large amplitude left-hand polarized waves can change the linear properties of ion-beam plasma electromagnetic instabilities [Gomberoff, 2003]. Thus, it was shown that in the ...

The dynamics of plasmas pervading the interplanetary and interstellar medium are often described within the frame of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which involves the coupling between flows and magnetic fields. This theoretical ...

We use particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of a collisionless, electron–ion plasma with a decreasing background magnetic field, B, to study the effect of velocity-space instabilities on the viscous heating and thermal ...