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dc.contributor.authorKakad, Amar
dc.contributor.authorOmura, Yoshiharu
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-11T10:39:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-12T10:17:41Z-
dc.date.available2018-06-11T10:39:30Z
dc.date.available2021-02-12T10:17:41Z-
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationPhysics of Plasmas, 24, 102122, doi: 10.1063/1.4986030en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1176-
dc.description.abstractRecent fluid simulations show that the ponderomotive potentials and ponderomotive frequencies of electrons and ions can be used as proxies to identify steepening and breaking of the ion acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) in plasmas. However, the behavior of these proxies may deviate in the presence of kinetic effects such as particle trapping. We performed one-dimensional particle-incell (PIC) simulations to examine the effects of kinetic processes on the behavior of these proxies at the breaking of IASWs in plasmas. The electron and ion equilibrium densities were superimposed by a long-wavelength Gaussian type perturbation, which initially evolves into two IASWs observed as two phase space vortices due to the trapping of electrons in the ion acoustic (IA) potentials. These IASW structures grow due to the steepening of their trailing edges, and later they break into a chain of IA phase space vortices. Each of these vortices is associated with a bipolar electric field resulting in a positive potential structure. We examined the amplitude, width, and phase velocity of the IASWs at their breaking process to clarify their link with the trapping velocity. In addition, we estimated electron and ion ponderomotive potentials and frequencies from the PIC simulations to verify their applicability in identifying wave breaking limit under the kinetic regime. The present study shows that the behavior of the ponderomotive potential during the IA wave breaking process is similar to the one, which is proposed through fluid simulations. We find that IA wave breaking occurs when the maximum trapping velocity of the electron (Vtrap þ Vs) exceeds its thermal velocity. The present simulation study shows that both maximum electron trapping velocity and ponderomotive potential can be used to identify the IA wave breaking processes in plasmas.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectPlasmasen_US
dc.subjectIon acoustic wavesen_US
dc.subjectPondermotive processesen_US
dc.titleParticle trapping and ponderomotive processes during breaking of ion acoustic waves in plasmasen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.accession091715
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