Professor Bengt Eliasson
Physics
Publications
- Tracking the orbits of small space debris with ionospheric plasma waves
- Bernhardt PA, Eliasson BE, Scales WA, Howarth A, Foss V, Scott RL, McKay S
- 2026 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM) 2026 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 428-428 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.23919/nrsm68586.2026.11550947
- Search for enhanced scatter from plasma waves with space objects in orbit the JRO VHF radar
- Bernhardt PA, Eliasson BE, Scales WA, Huba JD
- 2025 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) 2025 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) 2025 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 1259-1261 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iceaa65662.2025.11306008
- Experimental investigation of scattering of microwaves in cool plasma
- Ronald Kevin, Casserly Sophie, Wilson Kieran, Speirs David, Selman Liam, Whyte Colin, Phelps Alan, Koepke Mark E, Cairns Robert, Alan, Bingham Robert, Eliasson Bengt, Strachan William, Robertson Craig, MacInnes Philip, Cross Adrian
- 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (2025)
- Magnetic field generation with helical laser beams in electron-hole plasmas
- Ikram H M, Ali Shahid, Khan Muhammad Zubair, Eliasson Bengt
- EPL (Europhysics Letters) Vol 150 (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
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
- Use of plasma waves to detect charged space debris in the ionosphere
- Speaker
- 28/4/2025
- Full-wave simulations of Satellite-plasma interaction during active ionospheric experiments
- Speaker
- 28/7/2024
- 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
Projects
- EBCD Efficiency Calculations
- Speirs, David (Principal Investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator)
- 23-Jan-2026 - 22-Jan-2027
- 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