Novel properties introduced by charged particulates in a plasma medium and how they influence excitation and propagation of waves are discussed. Such a medium, commonly known as dusty plasma, is generated in the near Earth environment by dust and other debris of meteoric origin and exhausts and effluents from space platforms. A novel feature of dusty plasma is that the charge to mass ratio can ...

A review is presented of recent experiments performed on the University of Iowa DC discharge dusty plasma device on various aspects of dust acoustic waves. A brief introduction to the physics of dusty plasmas and the dust acoustic wave is first presented. Three experiments are then described: (i) observation and interpretation of large amplitude (nonlinear) dust acoustic waves; (ii) evolution o...

Secondary dust density waves were observed in conjunction with high amplitude ðnd=nd0 > 2Þ dust acoustic waves (DAW) that were spontaneously excited in a dc glow discharge dusty plasma in the moderately coupled, C 1; state. The high amplitude dust acoustic waves produced large dust particle oscillations, displacements, and trapping. Secondary dust density waves were excited in the wave troughs ...

A series of numerical simulations based on a recurrence-free Vlasov kinetic model using kinetic phase point trajectories are presented. Electron-ion plasmas and three-component (electron-iondust) dusty or complex plasmas are considered, via independent simulations. Considering all plasma components modeled through a kinetic approach, the linear and nonlinear behavior of ion acoustic excitations...

A theoretical study is presented for the propagation of Dust Ion Acoustic Waves in an unmagnetized four-component plasma, consisting Maxwellian negative ions, cold mobile positive $\kappa$-distributed electrons and positively charged dust grains. Based on characteristics Sagdeev pseudopotential phase portraits, three types nonlinear waves are observed --- solitons, double layers supersolitons. ...

An experiment has been performed to study the behavior of dust acoustic waves driven at high frequencies f 100 Hz , extending the range of previous work. In this study, two previously unreported phenomena are observed—interference effects between naturally excited dust acoustic waves and driven dust acoustic waves, and the observation of finite dust temperature effects on the dispersion relatio...

We consider the influence of dust charge fluctuations on damping of the dust-ion-acoustic waves. It is assumed that all grains have equal masses but charges are not constant in time they may fluctuate in time. The dust charges are not really independent of the variations in the plasma potentials. All modes will influence the charging mechanism, and feedback will lead to several new interesting ...