Dynamics of Alfvén solitons in inhomogeneous plasmas

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Xu, Tao ^a   Tian, Bo ^a,b   Li, Li Li ^a   Lü, Xing ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODEL STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PLASMAS;

CONSERVATION LAWS; DINGER EQUATIONS; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; GENERALIZED VARIABLES; GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS; HIROTA METHODS; INHOMOGENEOUS PLASMAS; INTEGRABILITY; LAX PAIRS; N WAVES; N-SOLITON SOLUTIONS; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; SOLITON STRUCTURES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 55149091815     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2997340     Document Type: Article

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