Higher-order corrections to solitary waves in a non-isothermal relativistic plasma with cold ions and two-temperature electrons
Abstract
A critical analysis of nonlinear waves in a non-isothermal relativistic plasma is performed using reductive perturbation theory. The plasma is assumed to contain two-temperature electrons. Higher-order corrections to the solitary wave are also computed, and the variations of the profile with respect to v/c, the two temperatures of the electrons, and the parameters bl, and bn characterising the non-isothermal nature are depicted graphically and com-pared with previous results.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022377800015154
- Bibcode:
- 1990JPlPh..44..253C
- Keywords:
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- Electron Energy;
- Energetic Particles;
- Relativistic Plasmas;
- Solitary Waves;
- Collisionless Plasmas;
- Ion Distribution;
- Nonlinear Systems;
- Perturbation Theory;
- Plasma Physics