Complex (dusty) plasmas: Current status, open issues, perspectives

VE Fortov, AV Ivlev, SA Khrapak, AG Khrapak… - Physics reports, 2005 - Elsevier
The field of complex (dusty) plasmas—low-temperature plasmas containing charged
microparticles—is reviewed: The major types of experimental complex plasmas are briefly …

Solitons, shocks and vortices in dusty plasmas

PK Shukla, AA Mamun - New Journal of Physics, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Three important classes of nonlinear phenomena, namely solitons, shocks and vortices in
dusty plasmas, have been discussed. The static and mobile charged dust grains have been …

Weakly dissipative dust-ion-acoustic solitons

SI Popel, AP Golub, TV Losseva, AV Ivlev, SA Khrapak… - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
We investigate the possibility for dust ion-acoustic solitons to exist. Compressive solitonlike
perturbations are damped and slowed down, mainly due to the plasma absorption and ion …

Charged dust and shock phenomena in the solar system

SI Popel, AA Gisko - Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2006 - npg.copernicus.org
The results on shock phenomena in dusty plasmas of the Solar System are reviewed. The
problems of dust ion acoustic bow shock in interaction of the solar wind with dusty cometary …

Shock melting of a two-dimensional complex (dusty) plasma

D Samsonov, SK Zhdanov, RA Quinn, SI Popel… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
Shock waves with a linear front were experimentally studied in a monolayer hexagonal
Yukawa lattice which was formed from charged monodisperse plastic microspheres and …

Formation of structures in a dusty ionosphere

BA Klumov, GE Morfill, SI Popel - Journal of Experimental and Theoretical …, 2005 - Springer
An analysis of the evolution of microscopic particles (dust grains) in the Earth's ionosphere
and their effect on ionization in the middle atmosphere is presented. It is shown that summer …

Magnetized dusty plasma: On issues of its complexity and magnetization of charged dust particles

M Choudhary - Contributions to Plasma Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
It is possible to excite various linear and nonlinear low‐frequency modes in dusty plasma,
which is an admixture of electrons, ions, gas atoms, and negatively charged solid particles …

Ion-acoustic solitons in dusty plasma

TV Losseva, SI Popel, AP Golub' - Plasma physics reports, 2012 - Springer
The dynamics of dust ion-acoustic solitons is analyzed in a wide range of dusty plasma
parameters. The cases of both a positive dust grain charge arising due to the photoelectric …

Dynamics of nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in Venus' upper ionosphere

K Chettri, PK Prasad, P Chatterjee, A Saha - Advances in Space Research, 2024 - Elsevier
At an altitude of 1000-2000 km in the Venusian upper ionospheric region, the plasma is
composed of H+ ions, O+ ions, and solar wind (SW) protons with electrons distributed …

Discoveries of waves in dusty plasmas

AA Mamun, PK Shukla - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2011 - cambridge.org
The basic features of dusty plasmas, particularly basic characteristics of dust in a plasma,
and typical dusty plasma parameters for different space and laboratory plasma conditions …