Modulational instability in dusty plasmas
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 2 (8) , 2970-2974
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871195
Abstract
Self-consistent equations for ion density, envelope electric fields, and charge variations of dust particles are obtained for a dusty plasma. A new type of modulational instability of Langmuir waves related to dust charging processes is found.Keywords
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