Published January 1991
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Journal article
Effects of ion drift on small-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons
Creators
- 1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0271 (USA)
Description
Some properties of small-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons in a plasma consisting of nondrifting electrons and drifting ions are investigated. Electron inertia effects are shown to be considerably more important than relativistic effects. It is also shown that ion-acoustic soliton solutions exist only if the ion drift velocity is less than the electron thermal velocity
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Fluids B
- Journal Volume
- 3
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Phys. Fluids B.
- Journal Page Range
- 26-28
- ISSN
- 0899-8221
- CODEN
- PFBPE
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22040021
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMPLITUDES; COLLISIONLESS PLASMA; ELECTRONS; ION ACOUSTIC WAVES; ION DRIFT; MOMENT OF INERTIA; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; POISSON EQUATION; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SOLITONS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; EQUATIONS; FERMIONS; ION WAVES; LEPTONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMA; PLASMA WAVES; QUASI PARTICLES