Comments on ’’Electromagnetic wave propagation in inhomogeneous plasmas’’

Drift wave vortices in inhomogeneous plasmas

The effects of density and temperature gradients on drift wave vortex dynamics are studied using a fully nonlinear model with the Boltzmann density distribution. The equation based on the full Boltzmann relation, in the short wavelength ( -ps ) region, possesses no localized monopole solution, while in the longer wavelength [ (psrn ) “‘1 region the density profile governs the existence of monop...

Electromagnetic Wave Simulation in Fusion Plasmas

COMSOL has been used to model the propagation of electromagnetic waves in fusion plasmas. For the first time, a finite element method has been used to solve the wave propagation for realistic fusion plasma parameters in the lower hybrid and ion cyclotron frequency ranges. Moreover, for lower hybrid waves, a new efficient iterative algorithm has been developed to take into account the dispersive...

Modeling of wave propagation in inhomogeneous media.

We present a methodology providing a new perspective on modeling and inversion of wave propagation satisfying time-reversal invariance and reciprocity in generally inhomogeneous media. The approach relies on a representation theorem of the wave equation to express the Green function between points in the interior as an integral over the response in those points due to sources on a surface surro...

Wave Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Medium

Wave Propagation and Blocking in Inhomogeneous Media

Wave propagation governed by reaction-diffusion equations in homogeneous media has been studied extensively, and initiation and propagation are well understood in scalar equations such as Fisher’s equation and the bistable equation. However, in many biological applications the medium is inhomogeneous, and in one space dimension a typical model is a series of cells, within each of which the dyna...