One-dimensional hybrid code simulations are presented, carried out in order both to study solitary waves of the slow mode branch in an isotropic, collisionless, medium-β plasma (βi=0.25) and to test the fluid based soliton interpretation of Cluster observed strong magnetic depressions (Stasiewicz et al., 2003; Stasiewicz, 2004) against kinetic theory. In the simulations, a variety of strongly o...

The quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is anisotropic throughout its evolution. This anisotropy changes the physics of jet-medium interaction, making it dependent on momentum direction jet. In this paper we analyze transverse broadening a jet parton interacting with soft gluons an plasma. Our analysis equally applies to quasiparticles kinetic theory. We subtract contribution fr...

" Electrons, like people, are fertile and infertile: high-energy electrons are fertile and able to reproduce. " —Lev Tsendin Modern physics of gas discharges increasingly uses physical kinetics for analysis of non-equilibrium plasmas. The description of underlying physics at the kinetic level appears to be important for plasma applications in modern technologies. In this paper, we attempt to gr...

This paper investigates hybrid kinetic-MHD models, where a hot plasma (governed by a kinetic theory) interacts with a fluid bulk (governed by MHD). Different nonlinear coupling schemes are reviewed, including the pressure-coupling scheme (PCS) used in modern hybrid simulations. This latter scheme suffers from being non-Hamiltonian and to not exactly conserve total energy. Upon adopting the Vlas...

A novel computational fluid dynamics and molecular kinetic theory (CFD-MK) method was developed to simulate the impingement of a nanodroplet onto a solid surface. A numerical solution of the Navier–Stokes equation using a volume-of-fluid (VOF) technique was used to model nanodroplet deformation. Dynamic contact angle during droplet impact was obtained by molecular kinetic theory. This dynamic c...

The roots of the theory of nonlinear dispersive waves date back to hydrodynamics of the 19th century. It was observed, both experimentally and theoretically, that, under certain circumstances, the dissipative effects in nonlinear waves become less important then the dispersive ones. In this way, balance between nonlinearity and dispersion gives rise to formation of stable patterns (solitons, cn...