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Title: Small amplitude dust ion-acoustic solitary waves and double layers in a dusty plasma with flat-topped electron distribution

Journal Article · · Physics of Plasmas
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3526649· OSTI ID:21532133
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Science, Babol University of Technology, Babol 47148-71167 (Iran, Islamic Republic of) and Research Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Maragha, P.O. Box 55134-441, Maragha 55177-36698 (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
  2. Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342 (Bangladesh)

The properties of small but finite amplitude dust ion-acoustic (DIA) solitary waves (SWs) as well double layers (DLs) in a dusty plasma containing warm adiabatic ions, electrons following flat-topped velocity distribution, and arbitrarily (positively or negatively) charged immobile dust are studied. The effects of ion-temperature, resonant electrons, and dust number density are found to significantly modify the criteria for the existence of the DIA SWs and DLs, as well as significantly modify their basic features. It is also shown that the ion-temperature reduces the possibility for the formation of these localized structures, and that their amplitude decreases (increases) with the increase in the negative (positive) dust number density.

OSTI ID:
21532133
Journal Information:
Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 17, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3526649; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1070-664X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English