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R. A. Cairns

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61

Publications

3.5K

Citations

27

H-Index

1975

Active since

Affiliations

University of St Andrews(Current)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

University of Strathclyde

Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

Ruhr University Bochum

R. A. Cairns is an author at University of St Andrews specializing in engineering, physics, and plasma physics.

Top concepts

PhysicsEngineeringPlasma PhysicsPlasma TheoryApplied PhysicsMagnetohydrodynamicsSynchrotron RadiationPlasma ScienceCosmic RayPlasma Simulation

Publications per year

1975–2021

61

Publications

61

Electrostatic solitary structures in non‐thermal plasmas

R. A. Cairns, A. A. Mamum, R. Bingham et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 1995 · 906 citations

Electrostatic Solitary Structures, Space Plasma Physics, Ion Sound Solitons +15

Solitary potentials in dusty plasmas

A. A. Mamun, R. A. Cairns, P. K. Shukla · Physics of Plasmas · 1996 · 323 citations

Engineering, Negative Solitary Potentials, Physics +11

The role of negative energy waves in some instabilities of parallel flows

R. A. Cairns · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1979 · 301 citations

Parallel Flows, Total Energy, Engineering +14

Effects of vortex-like and non-thermal ion distributions on non-linear dust-acoustic waves

A. A. Mamun, R. A. Cairns, P. K. Shukla · Physics of Plasmas · 1996 · 263 citations

Nonlinear Dust-acoustic Waves, Aeroacoustics, Vortex Dynamics +15

Dust-acoustic shock waves due to strong correlation among arbitrarily charged dust

A. A. Mamun, R. A. Cairns · Physical Review E · 2009 · 103 citations

Aeroacoustics, Engineering, Atmospheric Acoustic +16

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