Compressive and rarefactive ion-acoustic solitons in a two component electron plasma

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-176

  Mckenzie, J F ^a   Doyle, T B ^a   Hellberg, M A ^a   Verheest, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONS; PLASMAS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELECTRON APPROXIMATION; ION-ACOUSTIC SOLITONS; NUMBER DENSITY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 24344490352     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: 14697807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377804003411     Document Type: Article

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