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Nonlinear surface waves on a thin plasma layer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

I. Zhelyazkov ,
T. Vodenicharova  and
M. Y. Yu
I. Zhelyazkov
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, 1126 Sofia, Bulgaria
T. Vodenicharova
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Institute for Foreign Students, 1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
M. Y. Yu
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 4630 Bochum 1, F.R. Germany
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Abstract

The propagation of nonlinear high-frequency TM antisymmetric surface waves on a thin un magnetized plasma slab bounded by vacuum has been studied. It is found that smooth surface wave solitons due to the modulation of finite-amplitude electron surface waves by slow ion-acoustic motion exist. When the high-frequency wave propagation is modified by a purely electronic slow motion, the governing equation is a derivative nonlinear Schröd inger equation with a cusped-soliton solution.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , August 1986 , pp. 143 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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