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Ion-acoustic double layers in magnetized plasma consisting of warm adiabatic ions and non-thermal electrons having vortex-like velocity distribution: existence and stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

JAYASREE DAS ,
ANUP BANDYOPADHYAY  and
K. P. DAS
JAYASREE DAS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Chittaranjan College, 8A Beniatola Lane, Kolkata – 700 009, India
ANUP BANDYOPADHYAY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700 032, India
K. P. DAS
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, 92-Acharya Prfulla Chandra Road, Kolkata – 700 009, India ([email protected])
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Abstract

A combined Schamel's modified Korteweg–de Vries–Zakharov– Kuznetsov (S–KdV–ZK) equation efficiently describes the nonlinear behaviour of ion-acoustic waves in a plasma consisting of warm adiabatic ions and non-thermal electrons (due to the presence of fast energetic electrons) having vortex-like velocity distribution function (due to the presence of trapped electrons), immersed in a uniform (space-independent) and static (time-independent) magnetic field, when the vortex-like velocity distribution function of electrons approaches the non-thermal velocity distribution function of electrons as prescribed by Cairns et al. (1995 Electrostatic solitary structures in non-thermal plasmas. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22, 2709–2712), i.e. when the contribution of trapped electrons tends to zero. This combined S–KdV–ZK equation admits a double-layer solution propagating obliquely to the external uniform and static magnetic field. The condition for the existence of this double-layer solution has been derived. The three-dimensional stabilities of the double-layer solutions propagating obliquely to the external uniform and static magnetic field have been investigated by the multiple-scale perturbation expansion method of Allen and Rowlands (1993 Determination of growth rate for linearized Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation. J. Plasma Phys. 50, 413–424; 1995 Stability obliquely propagating plane solitons of the Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation. J. Plasma Phys. 53, 63–73). It is found that the double-layer solutions of the combined S–KdV–ZK equation are stable at the lowest order, i.e. up to the order k, where k is the wave number of perturbation.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 163 - 186
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