Propagation of dust ion acoustic waves in plasmas composed of nonthermal distributed electrons and stationary dust particles is investigated. Nonlinear Schrdinger equation is derived to describe small amplitude waves, using the reduction perturbation technique. Modulation instability of dust ion acoustic waves is analysed for this system. Parametric investigation indicates that growth rate of...

The dust acoustic wave (DAW) is a very low frequency (tens of Hz) dust density wave in which the dust particles participate in the wave dynamics. The early experimental observations of DAWs showed that the wave was self-excited by a modest relative ion drift and grew to very high amplitudes (~100%). In the first part of this paper we describe experiments showing the self-steepening of nonlinear...

The ion-acoustic instability in a dusty negative ion plasma is investigated, focusing on the parameter regime in which the negative ion density is much larger than the electron density. The dynamics of the massive dust grains are neglected, but collisions of electrons and ions with dust grains in addition to other collisional processes are taken into account. The presence of a population of cha...

Dust acoustic waves are very low frequency modes associated with the dynamics of charged dust in a plasma. These waves have phase speed much smaller than the ion thermal speed and frequencies typically below the dust plasma frequency which can be on the order of hertz to hundreds of hertz for typical lab dusty plasma parameters. When the phase speed of the wave is much larger than the thermal s...

Dust acoustic (DA) solitary waves are investigated in an unmagnetized dusty plasma comprising of fluid warm dust particles and kappa distributed ions. We assume the electron number density to be sufficiently depleted in this fluid model, i.e., d e n n  . We consider the usual ad hoc damping term, involving the damping rate  due to the dust–neutral collisions; and derived the modified dispers...

The head-on collision between two dust-acoustic solitary waves in an unmagnetized dusty plasma is investigated, including consideration of the dust charge variation. By using the extended Poincaré-Lighthill-Kuo perturbation method, the analytical phase shifts following the head-on collision are derived. The effects of the ratio of ion temperature to electron temperature, the ratio of the number...

Structure formation and wave phenomena in moderately coupled dusty plasmas." PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) thesis, ABSTRACT Dusty plasmas, defined as plasmas of ions, electrons, neutrals, and charged micron to sub-micron dust particles, support a rich diversity of physical states. These states (ranging from solids to liquids to gas) are determined by the ratio of the Coulomb potential energy betwe...