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Title: Dust ion-acoustic shock waves in charge varying dusty plasmas with electrons having vortexlike velocity distribution

Journal Article · · Physics of Plasmas
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3529364· OSTI ID:21532141
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Science, Babol University of Technology, Babol 47148-71167 (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
  2. Plasma Physics Group (PPG), Theoretical Physics Laboratory (TPL), Faculty of Science-Physics, University of Bab-Ezzouar, USTHB, B.P. 32, El Alia, Algiers (Algeria)

A weakly nonlinear analysis is carried out to investigate the properties of dust ion-acoustic shock waves in a charge varying dusty plasma with vortexlike electron distribution. We use the ionization model, hot ions with equilibrium streaming speed and a trapped electron charging current derived from the well-known orbit limited motion theory. A new modified Burger equation is derived. Besides nonlinear trapping, this equation involves two kinds of dissipation (the anomalous one inherent to nonadiabatic dust charge fluctuation and the one due to the particle loss and ionization). These two kinds of dissipation can act concurrently. The traveling wave solution has been acquired by employing the modified extended tanh-function method. The shocklike solution is numerically analyzed based on the typical numerical data from laboratory dusty plasma devices. It is found that ion temperature, trapped particles, and weak dissipations significantly modify the shock structures.

OSTI ID:
21532141
Journal Information:
Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 17, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3529364; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1070-664X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English