Dust-acoustic solitary waves and double layers in dusty plasma consisting of cold dust particles and two-temperature isothermal ions
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 4 (9) , 3167-3172
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.872456
Abstract
It is found that a dusty plasma with inertial dust fluid and two-temperature isothermal ions admits both compressive and rarefactive solitary waves, as well as compressive and rarefactive double layers (depending on the concentration of low-temperature ions). In this paper, Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV-type equations) with cubic and fourth-order nonlinearity at the critical density of low-temperature isothermal ions are derived to discuss properties of dust-acoustic solitary waves. In the vicinity of critical density of low-temperature ions, KdV-type equation with mixed nonlinearity is discussed. By using quasipotential analysis, critical Mach numbers M 1c and M 2c are obtained such that rarefactive dust-acoustic solitons exist when 1<M<M 1c and compressive dust acoustic solitons exist when 1<M<M 2c .Keywords
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