1111.7012 (Tanim Islam)

Axisymmetric Nonlinear Waves And Structures in Hall Plasmas    [PDF]

Tanim Islam

A Hall plasma consists of a plasma with not all species frozen into the magnetic field. In this paper, a general equation for the evolution of an axisymmetric magnetic field in a Hall plasma is derived, with an integral similar to the Grad-Shafranov equation. Special solutions arising from curvature -- whistler drift modes that propagate along the electron drift as a Burger's shock, and nonlinear periodic and soliton-like solutions to the generalized Grad-Shafranov integral -- are analyzed. We derive analytical and numerical solutions in an electron-ion Hall plasma, in which electrons and ions are the only species in the plasmas. Results may then be applied to electron-ion-gas Hall plasmas, in which the ions are coupled to the motion of gases in low ionized plasmas (lower ionosphere and protostellar disks), and to dusty Hall plasmas (such as molecular clouds), in which the much heavier charged dust may be collisionally coupled to the gas.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7012