Nonlinear wave propagation in a strongly coupled collisional dusty plasma

Journal Article · Wed Jun 15 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (Print)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVE.83.066406· OSTI ID:21554528

Ghosh, Samiran; Gupta, Mithil Ranjan; Chakrabarti, Nikhil; Chaudhuri, Manis ^[1]

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1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700 009 (India)

The propagation of a nonlinear low-frequency mode in a strongly coupled dusty plasma is investigated using a generalized hydrodynamical model. For the well-known longitudinal dust acoustic mode a standard perturbative approach leads to a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) soliton. The strong viscoelastic effect, however, introduced a nonlinear forcing and a linear damping in the KdV equation. This novel equation is solved analytically to show a competition between nonlinear forcing and dissipative damping. The physical consequence of such a solution is also sketched.

• OSTI ID: 21554528
• Journal Information: Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (Print), Journal Name: Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (Print) Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 83; ISSN 1539-3755
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
DAMPING
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
DUSTS
EQUATIONS
KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
PERTURBATION THEORY
PLASMA
QUASI PARTICLES
SOLITONS
WAVE PROPAGATION