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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4802934
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- Higher Education Commission through Indigenous 5000 Ph.D. Scholarship Scheme
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We have studied the propagation of ion acoustic shock waves involving planar and non-planar geometries in an unmagnetized plasma, whose constituents are non-degenerate ultra-cold ions, relativistically degenerate electrons, and positrons. By using the reductive perturbation technique, Korteweg-deVries Burger and modified Korteweg-deVries Burger equations are derived. It is shown that only compressive shock waves can propagate in such a plasma system. The effects of geometry, the ion kinematic viscosity, and the positron concentration are examined on the ion acoustic shock potential and electric field profiles. It is found that the properties of ion acoustic shock waves in a non-planar geometry significantly differ from those in planar geometry. The present study has relevance to the dense plasmas, produced in laboratory (e.g., super-intense laser-dense matter experiments) and in dense astrophysical objects. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4802934]
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