The solitary wave propagation in a collisional dusty plasma

B. P. Pandey, J. Vranjes

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    Abstract

    The present work investigates the nonlinear wave properties of a collisional dusty plasma consisting of electrons, ions, and charged grains. It is shown that the collisional dusty medium is inherently dispersive in nature when the electrons and ions are strongly magnetized. In such a plasma, when the fluctuation wavelength is larger than the dust skin depth, the balance between the dispersion and nonlinearity leads to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. It is quite plausible that the soliton solutions of the nonlinear equation may explain some of the large scale structures observed in various space plasma settings.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number083701
    Pages (from-to)1-4
    Number of pages4
    JournalPhysics of Plasmas
    Volume15
    Issue number8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

    Bibliographical note

    Copyright 2008 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Physics of plasmas, Vol. 15, Issue 8, pp.083701-1 - 083701-4, and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/15/083701/1

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