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COMMUNICATIONS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Volume 62, Issue 6, Pages 875-880Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0253-6102/62/6/16
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dusty plasmas; Shock wave; reductive perturbation technique; K-P burgers equation
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We study the nonlinear propagation of dust-ion acoustic (DIA) shock waves in an un-magnetized dusty plasma which consists of electrons, both positive and negative ions and negatively charged immobile dust grains. Starting from a set of hydrodynamic equations with the ion thermal pressures and ion kinematic viscosities included, and using a standard reductive perturbation method, the Kadomtsev-Petviashivili-Burgers (K-P-Burgers) equation is derived, which governs the evolution of DIA shocks. A stationary solution of the K-P-Burgers equation is obtained and its properties are analysed with different plasma number densities, ion temperatures and masses. It is shown that a transition from shocks with negative potential to positive one occurs depending on the negative ion concentration in the plasma and the obliqueness of propagation of DIA waves.
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