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- Title
KP Burgers shocks in a warm electronegative plasma with q-nonextensive distributed electrons.
- Authors
Shan, S.; Akhtar, N.; Ali, S.
- Abstract
Nonlinear properties of ion-acoustic (IA) shock are studied by incorporating the effects of electron nonextensivity in a warm electronegative plasma, whose constituents are the inertial positive/negative ions and q-distributed electrons. For this purpose, the evolution equations are solved to obtain Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) Burgers equation by using the reductive perturbation technique and its solution by the tanh method. Furthermore, the conditions for the existence of oscillatory and monotonic shocks are discussed. Numerically, it is found that IA shock propagation characteristics are significantly modified by the variation of plasma parameters, such as, the effects of electron nonextensivity, the positive and negative ion-to-electron temperature ratios ( θ, θ), respectively. The former also affect the dispersion, dissipation and nonlinearity coefficients of the KPB equation involving the IA shocks. The present analyses could be useful for understanding the nonlinear shock wave excitations in space and laboratory plasmas, where two distinct groups of ions are present.
- Subjects
ION acoustic waves; KADOMTSEV-Petviashvili equation; ELECTRON temperature; SHOCK waves; ANIONS; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory)
- Publication
Astrophysics & Space Science, 2014, Vol 351, Issue 1, p181
- ISSN
0004-640X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10509-014-1834-x