Time-fractional KdV equation for plasma of two different temperature electrons and stationary ion
Abstract
Using the time-fractional KdV equation, the nonlinear properties of small but finite amplitude electron-acoustic solitary waves are studied in a homogeneous system of unmagnetized collisionless plasma. This plasma consists of cold electrons fluid, non-thermal hot electrons, and stationary ions. Employing the reductive perturbation technique and the Euler-Lagrange equation, the time-fractional KdV equation is derived and it is solved using variational method. It is found that the time-fractional parameter significantly changes the soliton amplitude of the electron-acoustic solitary waves. The results are compared with the structures of the broadband electrostatic noise observed in the dayside auroral zone.
- Publication:
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Physics of Plasmas
- Pub Date:
- September 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3640533
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhPl...18i2116E
- Keywords:
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- Korteweg-de Vries equation;
- plasma ion acoustic waves;
- plasma solitons;
- plasma temperature;
- variational techniques;
- 52.35.Sb;
- 52.35.Mw;
- 52.35.Fp;
- 02.30.Xx;
- Solitons;
- BGK modes;
- Nonlinear phenomena: waves wave propagation and other interactions;
- Electrostatic waves and oscillations;
- Calculus of variations