Upper-hybrid wave driven Alfvenic turbulence in magnetized dusty plasmas

Details Upper-hybrid wave driven Alfvenic turbulence in magnetized dusty plasmas Upper-hybrid wave driven Alfvenic turbulence in magnetized dusty plasmas

2010-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/1011.0540v2

Physical Review E 83, 037401 (2011)

Physics

Plasma Physics

5 pages, 6 figures; Article to appear as a brief report in Phys. Rev. E (2011)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.83.037401

The nonlinear dynamics of coupled electrostatic upper-hybrid (UH) and Alfven waves (AWs) is revisited in a magnetized electron-ion plasma with charged dust impurities. A pair of nonlinear equations that describe the interaction of UH wave envelopes (including the relativistic electron mass increase) and the density as well as the compressional magnetic field perturbations associated with the AWs is solved numerically to show that many coherent solitary patterns can be excited and saturated due to modulational instability of unstable UH waves. The evolution of these solitary patterns is also shown to appear in the states of spatiotemporal coherence, temporal as well as spatiotemporal chaos due to collision and fusion among the patterns in stochastic motion. Furthermore, these spatiotemporal features are demonstrated by the analysis of wavelet power spectra. It is found that a redistribution of wave energy takes place to higher harmonic modes with small wavelengths which, in turn, results into the onset of Alfvenic turbulence in dusty magnetoplasmas. Such a scenario can occur in the vicinity of Saturn's magnetosphere as many electrostatic solitary structures have been observed there by the Cassini spacecraft.

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