Effects of ion drift on small-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics
- Vol. 3 (1) , 26-28
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.859946
Abstract
Some properties of small-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons in a plasma consisting of nondrifting electrons and drifting ions are investigated. Electron inertia effects are shown to be considerably more important than relativistic effects. It is also shown that ion-acoustic soliton solutions exist only if the ion drift velocity is less than the electron thermal velocity.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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