Weakly relativistic solitons in a cold plasma with electron inertia

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871840· OSTI ID:254136

Kalita, B C ^[1]; Barman, S N ^[2]; Goswami, G ^[3]

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1. Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781 014, Assam (India)
2. Department of Mathematics, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati-781 016, Assam (India)
3. 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, Vol. 3, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
COLD PLASMA
SOLITONS
RELATIVISTIC PLASMA
COLLISIONLESS PLASMA
ION ACOUSTIC WAVES
PHASE VELOCITY
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
INERTIAL FORCE
KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION