Charged dust phenomena in the near-Earth space environment

WA Scales, A Mahmoudian - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Dusty (or complex) plasmas in the Earth's middle and upper atmosphere ultimately result in
exotic phenomena that are currently forefront research issues in the space science …

Ground and space-based measurement of rocket engine burns in the ionosphere

PA Bernhardt, JO Ballenthin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-orbit firings of both liquid and solid rocket motors provide localized disturbances to the
plasma in the upper atmosphere. Large amounts of energy are deposited to ionosphere in …

Electromagnetic scattering by artificial plasma clouds in the ionosphere

HS Zhao, ZW Xu, W Tang, ZH Xu, K Xue… - … on Antennas and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vaporized samarium (Sm) has been released in the ionosphere for artificially creating
plasma clouds, which may be tailored as radio wave reflectors for over-the-horizon …

A Simulation of Artificial Neutral Gas‐Dust Plasma in the Ionosphere

J Feng, L Guo, B Xu, J Wu, H Li, Y Liang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dusty plasma is generally defined as a plasma system containing a large number of nano‐
or micron‐sized dust particles. Its plasma properties and propagation properties of wave …

[HTML][HTML] Model for charged dust expansion across a magnetic field

H Fu, WA Scales - Physics of Plasmas, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma fluctuations arise in the boundary region between charged dust clouds and
background plasmas. A self-consistent computational model is developed to study …

Lower hybrid turbulence associated with creation of dusty plasmas in the near-Earth space environment

MR Bordikar, W Scales - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Plasma turbulence associated with the creation of an artificial dust layer in the Earth's
ionosphere is investigated. Two scenarios are considered for plasma irregularity generation …

[HTML][HTML] Experimentally investigate ionospheric depletion chemicals in artificially created ionosphere

Y Liu, J Cao, J Wang, Z Zheng, L Xu, Y Du - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
A new approach for investigating ionosphere chemical depletion in the laboratory is
introduced. Air glow discharge plasma closely resembling the ionosphere in both …

Saturation of the ion drift instability in collisional complex plasmas by ion trapping

VV Yaroshenko - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Saturation of the ion drift instability in collisional complex plasmas by ion trapping Page 1
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 103, 063209 (2021) Saturation of the ion drift instability in collisional …

Simulations of the ion–dust streaming instability with non-Maxwellian ions

K Quest, M Rosenberg, B Kercher - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2017 - cambridge.org
The dust acoustic, or dust density, wave is a very low frequency collective mode in a dusty
plasma that is associated with the motion of the charged and massive dust grains. An ion …

Simulations of the dust acoustic instability in a collisional plasma with warm dust

K Quest, M Rosenberg, B Kercher… - Journal of Plasma …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Dust acoustic (or dust density) waves have been observed in many laboratory dusty
plasmas. These low-frequency waves involve the dynamics of highly charged and massive …