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ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages 1472-1482Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2018.10.024
Keywords
Partially ionised plasmas; Nonlinear waves; Shocks
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- Leverhulme Trust [IN-2014-016]
- Romanian Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research, RDI Programme for Space Technology and Advanced Research - STAR [181/20.07.2017]
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Compressional waves propagating in the partially ionised solar lower atmospheric plasmas can easily steepen into nonlinear waves, including shocks. Here we investigate the effect of weak dispersion generated by Hall currents perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field on the characteristics of shock waves. Our study will also focus on the interplay between weak dispersion and partial ionisation of the plasma. Using a multiple scale technique we derive the governing equation in the form of a Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation. The effect of weak dispersion on shock waves is obtained using a perturbation technique. The secular behaviour of second order terms is addressed with the help of a renormalization technique. Our results show that dispersion modifies the characteristics of shock waves and this change is dependent also on the ionisation degree of the plasma. Dispersion can create short lived oscillations in the shocked plasma. The shock fronts become wider with the increase in the number of neutrals in the plasma. (C) 2018 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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