Published June 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Cylindrical and spherical dust acoustic solitary waves in adiabatically hot dusty plasmas

  • 1. Theoretical Plasma Physics Group, Department of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320 (Pakistan)
  • 2. PINSTECH, Theoretical Plasma Physics Division, PO Nilore, Islamabad 45320 (Pakistan)

Description

The dust acoustic solitary waves (DASWs) in the presence of hot adiabatic dust in cylindrical and spherical geometries are investigated in an unmagnetized dusty plasma. The modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) has been derived by using the reductive perturbation technique. The numerical solutions of the mKdV equation have been presented in both the geometries for hot dust plasmas. It is found that the amplitude of the dust acoustic wave (DAW) increases with the increase of dust temperature in both the geometries. However, the hot dust has more effect on DASW in spherical geometry as compared to the cylindrical case. These results might be very useful to explain the salient features of multidimensional DAWs for space and laboratory plasmas

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0031-8949/75/6/002;
PII
S0031-8949(07)239403-02;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica Scripta (Online)
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 755-758
ISSN
1402-4896

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38080608
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DUSTS; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PERTURBATION THEORY; PLASMA; PLASMA WAVES; SOUND WAVES
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS