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Nonplanar dust ion-acoustic solitary and shock excitations in electronegative plasmas with trapped electrons

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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
Volume 337, Issue 1, Pages 231-246

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-011-0827-2

Keywords

Plasma; Electronegative plasma; Nonplanar geometry; Solitary structure; Shock structure

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  1. Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (Kuwait) under the Arab Fund Fellowship Program

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It is shown that the three-dimensional cylindrical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (CKP) and the extended cylindrical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (ECKP) equations can describe the propagation of nonplanar dust ion-acoustic excitations in a dusty plasma composed of positive ions, negative ions, stationary dust particles, as well as trapped electrons or a small percentage of trapped electrons. It is found that the solution of the CKP equation supports only solitary pulses, while the ECKP equation describes the propagation of both solitary and shock excitations. The effects of physical parameters, namely negative ions density, dust grains density, positive-to-negative mass ratio, direction cosine of the wave propagation on the pulses profile are examined. Furthermore, the existence regions of either localized or shock pulses are investigated. The relevance of nonlinear structures in the Earth's ionosphere and plasma experiment is discussed.

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