DUST-ACOUSTIC SOLITON IN A DUSTY PLASMA

Authors
MA JX LIU JY
Citation
Jx. Ma et Jy. Liu, DUST-ACOUSTIC SOLITON IN A DUSTY PLASMA, Physics of plasmas, 4(2), 1997, pp. 253-255
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physics of plasmas → ACNP
ISSN journal
1070664X
Volume
4
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
253 - 255
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-664X(1997)4:2<253:DSIADP>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
It is shown that a dusty plasma can admit dust-acoustic solitons on a very slow time scale involving the motion of dust grains, whose charge is self-consistently determined by local electron and ion currents. T he solitons exist for a range of velocities and the peak amplitude inc reases almost linearly with the velocity. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.