Dynamical aspects of various solitary waves and double layers in dusty plasmas
- Plasma Physics Division, Institute of Advanced Study in Science Technology, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022, Assam (India)
- Department of Mathematics, R. G. Baruah College, Guwahati-781025, Assam (India)
- Computer Science Division, Institute of Advanced Study in Science Technology, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022, Assam (India)
Employing quasipotential analysis, the Sagdeev potential equation has been derived in a multicomponent plasma consisting of free and trapped electrons and contaminated by the dust charged grains forming therein by the attachment of electrons to finite-size dust particles. Because of the free and trapped electrons in the dusty plasma, the plasma-acoustic wave exhibits the different features of various solitary waves. The Sagdeev potential equation, at a small-amplitude approximation, leads to the evaluation, by a proposed new formalism of a simple wave solution technique, of the new scenario of solitary wave propagation in a dusty plasma. It has been shown that the ordering of the nonisothermality in the dusty plasma also plays a unique role. In the case of a plasma with first-order nonisothermality, the Sagdeev potential equation derives the compressive solitary wave propagation, while for plasma with higher-order nonisothermality the method might fail to solve the Sagdeev potential equation and, thus, an alternate method is used to reveal the coexistence of compressive and rarefactive solitary waves. In addition, for certain plasma parameters, the solitary waves disappear and a double layer is expected. Again, with the better approximation in the Sagdeev potential, more features of solitary waves, known as spiky and explosive, along with the double layers, are also highlighted. The observations made of the solitary waves could be of further interest in the understanding of laboratory and space plasmas.{copyright} {ital 1998 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 565762
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 5, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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