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Effect of ion temperature and inhomogeneity on modulational instability of ion acoustic waves
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
The propagation of ion acoustic waves in an inhomogeneous plasma is studied in the presence of finite ion temperature. The standard nonlinear Schrödinger equation is obtained, and the regions of instability are plotted. It is claimed that these extraneous factors tend to lower the value of the critical wavenumber.
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