Professor Bengt Eliasson
Physics
Publications
- Magnetic field generation with helical laser beams in electron-hole plasmas
- Ikram H M, Ali Shahid, Khan Muhammad Zubair, Eliasson Bengt
- EPL (Europhysics Letters) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/add8b7
- Track after detection of inert space objects in conjunction with satellite-based plasma wave sensors
- Bernhardt PA, Eliasson BE, Scales WA, Howarth AD, Foss V, Scott RL
- 2025 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM) 2025 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 26-26 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.23919/usnc-ursinrsm66067.2025.10907060
- Beneficial impact of rocket engine burns over ground VLF transmitters for radiation belt remediation
- Bernhardt PA, Baumgardner J, Eliasson BE, Bortnik J, Howarthy AD
- 2025 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM) 2025 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 393-393 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.23919/usnc-ursinrsm66067.2025.10907065
- Generation of 100-TW half-cycle zeptosecond x-ray pulses in the cascaded regime
- Li Chengkai, Wang Yunliang, Chen Ze, Kang Youyou, Sun Meiqi, Qin Lipan, Eliasson Bengt, Yan Xueqing
- Physical Review Applied Vol 23 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.23.024047
- Beam-driven electron-acoustic waves in auroral region of magnetosphere with superthermal trapped electrons
- Jahangir R, Ali S, Eliasson B
- Physics of Fluids Vol 37 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0249424
- The generation of whistler, lower hybrid and magnetosonic waves by satellites passing through ionospheric magnetic field aligned irregularities
- Eliasson Bengt, Bernhardt Paul A
- Physics of Plasmas Vol 32 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0225399
Research Interests
Theory and simulations of waves and nonlinear structures plasmas, relativistic laser-plasma interactions, ionospheric physics and radio wave propagation, quantum phenomena in plasmas. Also development of Vlasov-Maxwell simulation codes, numerical codes for wave propagation in the ionosphere and in laboratory plasmas, kinetic models of nonlinear water waves, etc. See extended homepage on http://personal.strath.ac.uk/bengt.eliasson/ Was awarded Fellow of American Physical Society 2012.
Significant publications:
- Bengt Eliasson: Instability of a thin conducting foil accelerated by a finite wavelength intense laser. New Journal of Physics 17, 033026, doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/3/033026 (2015).
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Bengt Eliasson and K. Papadopoulos: Numerical study of anomalous absorption of O mode waves on magnetic field-aligned striations. Geophysical Research Letters 42(8), 2603-2611, doi:10.1002/2015GL063751 (2015).
- B. Eliasson and F. Haas: Trapping and instability of directional gravity waves in localized water currents. Physical Review E 89, 063014, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.89.063014 (2014).
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Bengt Eliasson: Full-scale simulations of ionospheric Langmuir turbulence. Modern Physics Letters B 27(8), 1330005 (27 pages), doi:10.1142/S0217984913300056 (2013).
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P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson, Novel attractive force between ions in quantum plasmas. Physical Review Letters 108, 165007, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.165007 (2012).
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B. Eliasson, C.-L. Chang, and K. Papadopoulos, Generation of ELF and ULF electromagnetic waves by modulated heating of the ionospheric F2 region, Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics 117, A10320, doi:10.1029/2012JA017935 (2012).
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B. Eliasson, X. Shao, G. Milikh, E. V. Mishin, and K. Papadopoulos, Numerical modeling of artificial ionospheric layers driven by high-power HF-heating, Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics117, A10321, doi:10.1029/2012JA018105 (2012).
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B. Eliasson and P. K. Shukla, Relativistic X-ray free-electron lasers in the quantum regime, Physical Review E 85, 065401(R), doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.85.066401 (2012).
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B. Eliasson and P. K. Shukla, The formation of electrostatic shocks in quantum plasmas with relativistically degenerate electrons. Europhysics Letters (EPL) 97, 15001, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/97/15001 (2012).
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Eliasson and P. K. Shukla, Numerical Investigation of the Instability and Nonlinear Evolution of Narrow-Band Directional Ocean Waves. Physical Review Letters 105, 014501, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.014501 (2010).
- B. Eliasson: Numerical simulations of the Fourier transformed Vlasov-Maxwell system in higher dimensions – Theory and applications, Transport Theory and Statistical Physics 39(5&7), 387-465, doi:10.1080/00411450.2011.563711 (2010).
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P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson, Nonlinear theory for a quantum diode in a dense Fermi magnetoplasma, Physical Review Letters 100, 036801, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.036801 (2008).
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B. Eliasson, C. S. Liu, X. Shao, R. Z. Sagdeev, and P. K. Shukla, Laser acceleration of monoenergetic protons via a double layer emerging from an ultra-thin foil, New Journal of Physics 11, 073006, doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073006 (2009).
Professional Activities
- Physics (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 18/2/2022
- Ionospheric Beat-Wave Brillouin Scattering at EISCAT
- Speaker
- 12/9/2021
- Generation of Electron Cyclotron Microwave Emissions in a Mirror Discharge,
- Speaker
- 12/9/2021
- International e-Conference on Recent Trends in Plasma Physics
- Keynote speaker
- 19/5/2021
- Enhanced scattering from a locally produced transient plasma grating in a plasma-based amplifier
- Contributor
- 19/4/2021
- International School on Physics and Allied Disciplines - 2021
- Keynote speaker
- 9/3/2021
Projects
- Space Object Identification with Measurements of Orbit Driven Waves (SOIMOW) SINTRA
- Eliasson, Bengt (Principal Investigator)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2027
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Higgins, Mark
- Eliasson, Bengt (Principal Investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Higgins, Mark (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Selman, Liam
- Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator) Selman, Liam (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
- Vlasov-Maxwell simulation of wave-driven turbulence and novel electron and ion heating schemes
- Speirs, David (Co-investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Principal Investigator)
- EPSRC awarded EPCC Tier-2 HPC resource access call. Funded 1 year of HPC resources on the CIRRUS Tier-2 HPC system for research.
- 14-Jan-2018 - 14-Jan-2019
- Microwave emission due to kinetic instabilities in an overdense mirror-confined plasma (International Exchanges Cost Share 2018 - Russia)
- Eliasson, Bengt (Principal Investigator) Bingham, Robert (Co-investigator) Phelps, Alan (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Speirs, David (Co-investigator)
- 10-Jan-2018 - 09-Jan-2022
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Wilson, Kieran
- Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator) Wilson, Kieran (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2024