Spontaneous transition from flat to cylindrical solitons

Journal Article · Mon Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · Physical Review Letters; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.384· OSTI ID:5596803

Frycz, P; Infeld, E ^[1]

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1. Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Hoza 69, Warsaw 00681, Poland (PL)

Flat, cylindrical, and spherical soliton solutions to various model equations are known. Many of these exact solutions have been seen in numerical simulations. However, there are few simulations that actually show that exact flat solitons can break up into an array of exact cylindrical or spherical solitons and follow this on a step by step basis. This Letter presents the first of these two kinds of transition for the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation governing ion acoustic solitons in strongly magnetized plasmas.

• OSTI ID: 5596803
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (USA), Vol. 63:4; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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