We investigate the interaction of magnetohydrody-namic waves with plasma density inhomogeneities. Our numerical study of the full MHD equations shows that: (A) Plasma density inhomogeneities are a source of non-linear generation of transverse com-pressive waves by a plane Alfvén wave, and substantially enhance (by about a factor of 2) the generation of the longitudinal compressive waves. (B) At...

Recently, Suk, Barov, and Rosenzweig [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1011 (2001)] proposed a scheme for trapping background electrons in a plasma wake field using a sudden downward transition in the background ion density, where the density transition length is small compared to the plasma skin depth. In the present paper we present a fluid dynamical description of this mechanism that is self-consistent ...

Nanosecond long laser pulses are used in medical applications where precise tissue ablation with minimal thermal and mechanical collateral damage is required. When a laser pulse is incident on a material, optical energy will be absorbed by a combination of linear and nonlinear absorption according to both: laser light intensity and material properties. In the case of water or gels, the first re...

We study theoretically the exchange of angular momentum between electromagnetic and electrostatic waves in a plasma, due to the stimulated Raman and Brillouin backscattering processes. Angular momentum states for plasmon and phonon fields are introduced for the first time. We demonstrate that these states can be excited by nonlinear wave mixing, associated with the scattering processes. This co...

Growth dynamics of plasma bubbles formed by laser-induced breakdown of air were examined. A literature search revealed that the physical dimensions of the plasma bubble are self-limited by shock wave separation and defocusing of the incoming laser beam. Chemical kinetics were then modeled by employing a system of sixteen coupled nonlinear differential equations. Oversimplification in initial co...

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It is well known that additional low-frequency waves arise when a second ion population is added to a plasma normally consisting of protons and electrons. Here, we investigate stationary structures streaming with a sub-fast speed in such a bi-ion plasma. It is shown that in addition to the usual “solitons”, which have already been described for a single-ion plasma, a new type of stationary stru...

The closed, energy conserving system of electromagnetic-plasma equations describing the classical beat wave accelerator are shown to lead to an intrinsic lim it on the acceleration efficiency due to the pump depletion effect producing an intense trail of plasma waves. We propose and analyze with theory and simulations a wakeless accelerating structure composed of a nonlinear vector soliton. The...

the homogeneous balance method can be used to construct exact traveling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. in this paper, this method is used to construct newsoliton solutions of the (3+1) jimbo--miwa equation.

We provide strongly conclusive evidence that the cubic nonlinearity plays an important part in the evolution of the large amplitude magnetic structures in the terrestrial foreshock. Large amplitude nonlinear wave trains at frequencies above the proton cyclotron frequency are identified after nonharmonic slow variations are filtered out by applying the empirical mode decomposition. Numerical sol...