Shock waves propagating in collisionless heliospheric and astrophysical plasmas have
been studied extensively over the decades. One prime motivation is to understand the …

We study the suprathermal electron acceleration mechanism in a perpendicular
magnetosonic shock wave in a high Mach number regime by using a particle-in-cell …

The process of electron injection at high Mach number, collisionless, quasi-perpendicular
shock waves is investigated by means of one-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell …

The surfatron offers the possibility of particle acceleration to arbitrarily high energies, given a
sufficiently large system. Surfatron acceleration of electrons by waves excited by ions …

Nonlinear evolution of the Buneman instability and its application to electron acceleration in
collisionless shocks are discussed. Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations show that …

We investigate ion-scale kinetic plasma instabilities at the collisionless shock using linear
theory and nonlinear particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. We focus on the Alfvén ion cyclotron …

The Weibel instability is investigated with PIC simulations of an initially unmagnetized and
spatially uniform electron plasma. This instability, which is driven by the thermally …

In addition to the well-known plasma parameters of Mach number (MA) and plasma β, the
other plasma parameter of the frequency ratio of the electron plasma to gyration, ω pe/Ω ce …

Astrophysical jets are ubiquitous in the universe and often associated with compact objects,
and their interactions with the ambient medium not only dissipate their own energy but also …

In this paper, spectra in the nonlinear phases of the Buneman instability are described by
instantaneous linear dispersion theory. One-dimensional Vlasov simulation of the Buneman …