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Effect of higher-order nonlinearity on propagation of nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in a collisionless plasma consisting of negative ions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

S. G. Tagare  and
R. Virupakshi Reddy
S. G. Tagare
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and CIS, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500 134, India
R. Virupakshi Reddy
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and CIS, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500 134, India
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Abstract

The combined effects of negative ions and higher-order nonlinearity on ionacoustic solitons are studied using the reductive perturbation method. The basic set of fluid equations for a plasma consisting of negative cold ions, positive cold ions and hot electrons (non-isothermal and isothermal) reduces to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation and the Korteweg-de Vries equation for the first-order potential, and to the linear inhomogeneous equation for the second-order potential. Stationary solutions of the coupled equations are obtained in the case of negative ions, retaining terms up to the third order in the usual reductive perturbation method.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 219 - 237
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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