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Title: Modulational instability of dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas with ultraviolet irradiation and nonadiabatic dust charge variation

Journal Article · · Physics of Plasmas
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3093267· OSTI ID:21274216
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  1. Department of Physics, School of Applied Science, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083 (China)
  2. Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001 (China)

The combined effects of nonadiabatic dust charge fluctuation, ultraviolet irradiation, and transverse perturbation on the modulational instability of nonlinear dust acoustic (DA) waves in dusty plasma consisting of Boltzmann-distributed electrons, ions, as well as positively charged dust grain were presented here. By using the reductive perturbation technique, a three-dimensional modified Davey-Stewartson equation governing the nonlinear waves is derived. It is shown that the modulation properties of the DA waves were strongly affected by the nonadiabatic dust charge variation and photoelectrons and there was a maximum time for the modulational instability.

OSTI ID:
21274216
Journal Information:
Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 16, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3093267; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English