Ion-acoustic solutions and shock waves in multicomponent plasmas
Abstract
The present investigation of ion-acoustic waves is based on the study of the nonlinearity of plasma waves in a dispersive medium. The study concerns ion-acoustic solitary waves in a warm ion plasma with nonisothermal electrons. Results for solitary waves in a plasma with isothermal electrons are also obtained. Incorporating previous results from the solitary wave solutions leads to a generalization of the effect of negative ions on ion-acoustic waves in plasmas consisting of either a warm or cold ion species. A reflection phenomenon of ions in these waves is also studied.
- Publication:
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Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0032-1028/21/3/005
- Bibcode:
- 1979PlPh...21..257D
- Keywords:
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- Ion Acoustic Waves;
- Plasma Composition;
- Plasma Waves;
- Shock Waves;
- Solitary Waves;
- Electron Energy;
- Electron Plasma;
- Ion Temperature;
- Nonlinear Equations;
- Plasma Temperature;
- Plasma Physics