Localized electrostatic excitations in a thomas-fermi plasma containing degenerate electrons

U.M. Abdelsalam; W.M. Moslem; P.K. Shukla

doi:10.1063/1.2912963

Localized electrostatic excitations in a thomas-fermi plasma containing degenerate electrons

U.M. Abdelsalam, W.M. Moslem, P.K. Shukla

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Abstract

By using the Thomas-Fermi electron density distribution for quantum degenerate electrons, the hydrodynamic equations for ions, and the Poisson equation, planar and nonplanar ion-acoustic solitary waves in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma are investigated. The reductive perturbation method is used to derive cylindrical and spherical Korteweg-de Vries equations. Numerical solutions of the latter are presented. The present results can be useful in understanding the features of small but finite amplitude localized ion-acoustic solitary pulses in a degenerate plasma

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	052303
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2912963
Publication status	Published - May 2008

Keywords

ion-acoustic-waves
warm multicomponent plasma
solitary waves
dusty plasmas
double-layers
solitons
amplitude
temperature
propagation
beam

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Localized electrostatic excitations in a thomas-fermi plasma containing degenerate electrons

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