Professor Bengt Eliasson

Physics

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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
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
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
PIC simulation of a nonoscillatory perturbation on a subcritical fast magnetosonic shock wave
Dieckmann M E, Huete C, Cobos F, Bret A, Folini D, Eliasson B, Walder R
Physica Scripta Vol 99 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad87c2

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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:

  1. 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).
  2. 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).

  3. 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).
  4. Bengt Eliasson: Full-scale simulations of ionospheric Langmuir turbulence. Modern Physics Letters B 27(8), 1330005 (27 pages), doi:10.1142/S0217984913300056 (2013).

  5. 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).

  6. 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).

  7. 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).

  8. 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).

  9. 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).

  10. 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).

  11. 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). 
  12. 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).

  13. 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

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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

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Professor Bengt Eliasson
Physics

Email: bengt.eliasson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4272