Published April 2015 | Version v1
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Pseudopotential approach for dust acoustic solitary waves in dusty plasmas with kappa-distributed ions and electrons and dust grains having power law size distribution

  • 1. Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur (India)

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Sagdeev's pseudopotential method is used to study small as well as arbitrary amplitude dust acoustic solitons in a dusty plasma with kappa distributed electrons and ions with dust grains having power law size distribution. The existence of potential well solitons has been shown for suitable parametric region. The criterion for existence of soliton is derived in terms of upper and lower limit for Mach numbers. The numerical results show that the size distribution can affect the existence as well as the propagation characteristics of the dust acoustic solitons. The effect of kappa distribution is also highlighted

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Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
22
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043708-043708.9
ISSN
1070-664X
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PHPAEN

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
46114247
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
AMPLITUDES; DUSTS; ELECTRON PLASMA WAVES; ELECTRONS; IONS; MACH NUMBER; PLASMA; POTENTIALS; SOLITONS
Descriptors DEC
CHARGED PARTICLES; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; PLASMA WAVES; QUASI PARTICLES; VELOCITY

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