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Title: Weakly relativistic solitons in a cold plasma with electron inertia

Abstract

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.}

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  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)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
254136
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 1; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
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

Citation Formats

Kalita, B C, Barman, S N, and Goswami, G. Weakly relativistic solitons in a cold plasma with electron inertia. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.1063/1.871840.
Kalita, B C, Barman, S N, & Goswami, G. Weakly relativistic solitons in a cold plasma with electron inertia. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871840
Kalita, B C, Barman, S N, and Goswami, G. 1996. "Weakly relativistic solitons in a cold plasma with electron inertia". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871840.
@article{osti_254136,
title = {Weakly relativistic solitons in a cold plasma with electron inertia},
author = {Kalita, B C and Barman, S N and Goswami, G},
abstractNote = {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.}},
doi = {10.1063/1.871840},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/254136}, journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 1,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996}
}