中国物理B ›› 2009, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (6): 2121-2128.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/6/003

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Effects of dust size distribution on nonlinear waves in a dusty plasma

陈建宏   

  1. Department of Physics, Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou 730070, China
  • 收稿日期:2008-08-20 修回日期:2008-10-22 出版日期:2009-06-20 发布日期:2009-06-20

Effects of dust size distribution on nonlinear waves in a dusty plasma

Chen Jian-Hong(陈建宏)   

  1. Department of Physics, Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou 730070, China
  • Received:2008-08-20 Revised:2008-10-22 Online:2009-06-20 Published:2009-06-20

摘要: For two-dimensional unmagnetized dusty plasmas with many different dust grain species, a Kadomtsev--Petviashvili (KP) equation, a modified KP (mKP) equation and a coupled KP(cKP) equation for small, but finite amplitude dust-acoustic solitary waves are obtained for different physical conditions respectively. The influence of an arbitrary dust size distribution described by a polynomial expressed function on the properties of dust-acoustic solitary waves is investigated numerically. How dust size distribution affects the sign and the magnitude of nonlinear coefficient (D) of KP (mKP) equation is also discussed in detail. It is noted that whether a compressive or a rarefactive solitary wave exists depends on the dust size distribution in some dusty plasmas.

关键词: dusty plasmas, solitary waves, dust size distribution

Abstract: For two-dimensional unmagnetized dusty plasmas with many different dust grain species, a Kadomtsev--Petviashvili (KP) equation, a modified KP (mKP) equation and a coupled KP(cKP) equation for small, but finite amplitude dust-acoustic solitary waves are obtained for different physical conditions respectively. The influence of an arbitrary dust size distribution described by a polynomial expressed function on the properties of dust-acoustic solitary waves is investigated numerically. How dust size distribution affects the sign and the magnitude of nonlinear coefficient A (D) of KP (mKP) equation is also discussed in detail. It is noted that whether a compressive or a rarefactive solitary wave exists depends on the dust size distribution in some dusty plasmas.

Key words: dusty plasmas, solitary waves, dust size distribution

中图分类号:  (Dusty or complex plasmas; plasma crystals)

  • 52.27.Lw
52.35.Mw (Nonlinear phenomena: waves, wave propagation, and other interactions (including parametric effects, mode coupling, ponderomotive effects, etc.)) 52.35.Sb (Solitons; BGK modes)