Oblique collision of ion-acoustic solitons
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 23 (6) , 1155-1163
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863117
Abstract
Identical spherical outgoing ion-acoustic solitons are launched from two separated spheres. The solitons collide in the plane midway between the spheres. The collision is inelastic in that a soliton-like object is created during the collision. Many of the characteristics of the interaction of the solitons are found to be similar to those of solutions to the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation. Similar observations were obtained for cylindrical outgoing ion-acoustic solitons and were contrasted with cylindrical pseudo-wave interactions.Keywords
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