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The width of the solitary wave in dusty plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2016

Behrooz Malekolkalami  and
Amjad Alipanah
Behrooz Malekolkalami*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Kurdistan, PO Box 66177-15175, Sanandaj, Iran
Amjad Alipanah
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Kurdistan, PO Box 66177-15175, Sanandaj, Iran
*
†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Sagdeev potential method is employed to compute the width of the ion-acoustic solitary wave propagated in a dusty plasma containing three components (dust–ion–electron). The results indicate that the width is a continuous function over the allowable ranges of plasma parameters. The complexity of the resulting equations is an obstacle to the expression of the width function in an explicit form in terms of the parameters. Thus, computer algebra is needed to plot the graph of the width function versus the parameters, which helps us to understand the width changes as the parameters change.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , 905820109
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© Cambridge University Press 2016 

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