Volume 61, Issue 1 e202000091
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Propagation properties of dust-electron-acoustic waves in weakly magnetized dusty nonthermal plasmas

Shubhra Bhowmick

Shubhra Bhowmick

Department of Mathematics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Biswajit Sahu

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Biswajit Sahu

Department of Mathematics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Biswajit Sahu, Department of Mathematics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata 700126, West Bengal, India.

Email: biswajit_sahu@yahoo.co.in

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First published: 01 August 2020
Citations: 4

Abstract

The linear and nonlinear properties of dust-electron acoustic waves (DEAWs) propagating in magnetized, collisionless, dusty plasma system containing inertial cold electrons, Maxwellian hot electrons, nonthermal ions, and arbitrarily (positively or negatively) charged stationary dust are investigated. The reductive perturbation technique is employed to reduce the basic set of fluid equations to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation or Ostrovsky's equation, which governs the dynamics of small amplitude DEAWs in a weakly magnetized dusty nonthermal plasma. The approximate analytical as well as numerical solutions reveal that the basic characteristics of DEA nonlinear structures are found to be significantly modified by the key plasma configuration parameters. It is found that the leading compressive or rarefactive solitary wave structure separates from a trailing wave packet during a considerable time under the influence of magnetic field-induced Lorentz force.

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