Electrostatic instabilities and nonlinear structures of low-frequency waves in nonuniform electron–positron–ion plasmas with shear flow

Abstract

It is found that the low-frequency ion acoustic and electrostatic drift waves can become unstable in uniform electron–ion and electron–positron–ion plasmas due to the ion shear flow. In a collisional plasma a drift-dissipative instability can also take place. In the presence of collisions the temporal behavior of nonlinear drift-dissipative mode can be represented in the form of well-known Lorenz and Stenflo type equations that admit chaotic trajectories. On the other hand, a quasi-stationary solution of the mode coupling equations can be represented in the form of monopolar vortex. The results of the present investigation can be helpful in understanding electrostatic turbulence and wave phenomena in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.