Stability analysis for Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation of weakly nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in a plasma

Linear and Nonlinear Dust Acoustic Waves in Quantum Dusty Electron-Positron-Ion Plasma

The behavior of linear and nonlinear dust acoustic waves (DAWs) in an unmagnetized plasma including inertialess electrons and positrons, ions, and mobile positive/negative dust grains are studied. Reductive perturbation method is employed for small and finite amplitude DAWs. To investigate the solitary waves, the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation is derived and the solution is presented. B...

Investigation of Dust-Ion Acoustic Waves in a Magnetized Collisional Dusty Plasma with Kappa Distribution Function for Electrons

The propagation of arbitrary amplitude dust ion acoustic waves (DIAWs) in a magnetized collisional dusty plasma including hot electrons, with kappa velocity distribution for electrons, warm ions and dust particles has been studied. In the presence of immobile massive dust particulates, DIAWs have been investigated through the Sagdeev pseudo-potential method. It is demonstrated that the amplitud...

Linear stability and instability of ion-acoustic plasma solitary waves

The Euler–Poisson equations for a cold, collisionless plasma support ion-acoustic solitary waves. We prove that these waves are spectrally stable at low amplitude in one space-dimension and present numerical evidence that they destabilize at finite amplitude before they develop singularities. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 52.35.Mw; 52.35.Sb

Nonlinear beam generated plasma waves as a source for enhanced plasma and ion acoustic lines

Instability of ion kinetic waves in a weakly ionized plasma.

The fundamental higher-order Landau plasma modes are known to be generally heavily damped. We show that these modes for the ion component in a weakly ionized plasma can be substantially modified by ion-neutral collisions and a dc electric field driving ion flow so that some of them can become unstable. This instability is expected to naturally occur in presheaths of gas discharges at sufficient...