Propagation of dust-acoustic nonlinear waves in a homogeneous collisional dusty plasma

Nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic waves DAWs in a weakly collisional dusty plasma comprising warm adiabatic fluid dust particles, isothermal electrons, and ions is investigated. We used the reductive perturbation theory to reduce the basic set of fluid equations to one evolution equation, namely damped Kadomtsev-Petviashivili (DKP). The analytical stationary solutions of the DKP equation are numerically analyzed, and the effect of various dusty plasma parameters on DAWs wave propagation is taken into account. We obtained, blast, anti-kink, periodic cnoidal and cnoidal waves. It is well known that explosive waves are a double edged sword. They can be seen, for example, in the atmosphere, or in engineering applications in metal coating.

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The nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic waves in a weakly collisional dusty plasma was investigated, with various types of wave solutions obtained. Explosive waves were found to have both positive and negative effects, being important in atmospheric phenomena and engineering applications such as metal coating.