Korteweg-De Vries Equation for Non-Linear Ion-Acoustic Waves in a Plasma with Negative Ions

Das, GC (1976) Korteweg-De Vries Equation for Non-Linear Ion-Acoustic Waves in a Plasma with Negative Ions. In: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 4 (3). pp. 199-204.

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Abstract

The theoretical analysis, based on the perturbation technique, of ion-acoustic waves in the vicinity of a Korteweg-de Vries (K-dV) equation derived in a plasma with some negative ions has been made. The investigation shows that the negative ions in plasma with isothermal electrons introduced a critical concentration at which the ion-acoustic wave plays an important role of wave-breaking and forming a precursor while the plasma with non-isothermal electrons has no such singular behaviour of the wave. These two distinct features of ion waves lead to an overall different approach of present study of ion-waves. A distinct feature of non-uniform transition from the nonisothermal case to isothermal case has been shown. Few particular plasma models have been chosen to show the characteristics behaviour of the ion-waves existing in different cases

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2009 10:42
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:49
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/24289

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