Lunar dust and dusty plasmas: Recent developments, advances, and unsolved problems

SI Popel, LM Zelenyi, AY Dubinskii - Planetary and Space Science, 2018 - Elsevier
A renaissance is being observed currently in investigations of the Moon. The Luna-25 and
Luna-27 missions are being prepared in Russia. At the same time, in connection with the …

Dynamics in binary complex (dusty) plasmas

K Jiang, CR Du - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2022 - Springer
Binary complex plasmas consist not only plasma components including electrons, ions and
neutrals but also mesoscopic solid particles of two types in terms of size and material. The …

Dusty plasma sheath-like structure in the region of lunar terminator

SI Popel, LM Zelenyi, B Atamaniuk - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The main properties of the dusty plasma layer near the surface over the illuminated and dark
parts of the Moon are described. They are used to realize dusty plasma behaviour and to …

Dust Acoustic Solitons in Saturn's Dust-Filled Magnetosphere

SI Kopnin, DV Shokhrin, SI Popel - Plasma Physics Reports, 2022 - Springer
The possibility is considered of propagation of localized wave structures, such as dust
acoustic solitons, in the plasma of the dust-filled Saturn's magnetosphere, which contains …

COMPACT—a new complex plasma facility for the ISS

CA Knapek, L Couedel, A Dove, J Goree… - Plasma physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Complex plasma is a state of soft matter where micrometer-sized particles are immersed in a
weakly ionized gas. The particles acquire negative charges of the order of several thousand …

Phenomena associated with complex (dusty) plasmas in the ionosphere during high-speed meteor showers

SI Kopnin, SI Popel, MY Yu - Physics of Plasmas, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Formation of dusty plasmas in the Earth's ionosphere at 80–120 km altitudes during high-
speed meteor showers and its detectable manifestations are discussed. Emphasis is given …

Stability of three-dimensional dust acoustic waves in a dusty plasma with two opposite polarity dust species including dust size distribution

SK El-Labany, WF El-Taibany, EE Behery - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2013 - APS
Propagation of dust acoustic waves (DAWs) with the effect of power law dust size distribution
(DSD) in a magnetized dusty plasma with opposite polarity dust is studied. Using a reductive …

[PDF][PDF] Wave processes in dusty plasma near the Moon's surface.

T Morozova, S Kopnin, S Popel - Plasma Physics Reports, 2015 - researchgate.net
A plasma–dust system in the near-surface layer on the illuminated side of the Moon is
described. The system involves photoelectrons, solar-wind electrons and ions, neutrals, and …

Head-on collision of dust acoustic solitons in a nonextensive plasma with variable size dust grains of arbitrary charge

EE Behery - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
The head-on collision of two dust acoustic solitons (DASs) in a nonextensive plasma with
positive or negative dust grains fluid including the effect of dust size distribution (DSD) is …

Observation of the Korteweg-de Vries soliton in molecular dynamics simulations of a dusty plasma medium

S Kumar, SK Tiwari, A Das - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The excitation and evolution of Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) solitons in a dusty plasma medium
are studied using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. The dusty plasma medium is …