Mathematical view with observational/experimental consideration on certain (2+1)-dimensional waves in the cosmic/laboratory dusty plasmas

Plasmas are believed to be possibly the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the Universe, supporting a variety of the wave phenomena, while a dusty plasma is of interest as a non-Hamiltonian system of interacting particles. In this Letter, symbolic computation on an observationally/experimentally-supported (2+1)-dimensional generalized variable-coefficient Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Burgers-type equation is done, for certain dust-acoustic, electron-acoustic, positron-acoustic, magneto-acoustic, dust-magneto-acoustic, ion-acoustic, dust-ion-acoustic and/or quantum-dust-ion-acoustic waves in one of the cosmic/laboratory dusty plasmas. Auto-Backlund transformation and families of the solitonic solutions are obtained, for the electrostatic wave potential, perturbation of the magnitude of the magnetic field, fluctuation of electron or ion density, or radial-direction component of the velocity of ions or dust particles, relying on such plasma coefficient functions as the nonlinearity, dispersion, dusty-fluid-viscosity/Burgers-dissipation, geometric-effect and diffraction/transverse-perturbation coefficients. Shock structures presented in this Letter are very close to the experimental results previously reported. Future plasma observations/experiments might verify some other effects offered by our analytic results with respect to those plasma coefficient functions. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.