Weakly relativistic solitons in a cold plasma with electron inertia
- Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781 014, Assam (India)
- Department of Mathematics, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati-781 016, Assam (India)
- National Informatics Centre, Dispur, Guwahati-781 006, Assam (India)
Ion-acoustic solitons have been investigated in a cold plasma in the presence of electron inertia through the derivation of the Korteweg{endash}de Vries (KdV) equation taking into account of weakly relativistic effects. Interestingly, relativistic solitons of both compressive and rarefactive characters are found to exist at the negligible difference of {ital u}{sub 0}/{ital c} and {ital v}{sub 0}/{ital c} ({ital u}{sub 0}, {ital v}{sub 0} being the initial speeds of streaming electrons and ions respectively, and {ital c}, the velocity of light) of the order 1{times}10{sup -7}. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 254136
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 3; ISSN 1070-664X; ISSN PHPAEN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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