Ion-acoustic solitons in plasmas with two adiabatic constituents

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 277-286

  Verheest, Frank ^a,b   Hellberg, Manfred A ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VELOCITY; DUSTY PLASMAS; ELECTRON-POSITRON PLASMA; ION ACOUSTIC SOLITONS; LARGE AMPLITUDE; MASS DENSITY RATIO; PARAMETER SPACES; PLASMA MODEL; PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; SOLITON VELOCITIES; TEMPERATURE RATIO;

IONS; PLASMAS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 77954115731     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: 14697807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377809990468     Document Type: Article

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