Arbitrary amplitude electro-acoustic solitary waves in an adiabatic dusty plasma

Abstract

The properties of different types of electro-acoustic (namely ion-acoustic (IA), dust ion-acoustic (DIA), and dust-acoustic (DA)) solitary waves (SWs) in an adiabatic dusty plasma (containing negatively charged cold dust, adiabatic hot ions and inertia-less adiabatic hot electrons) are investigated by the pseudo-potential approach. The combined effects of the adiabatic electrons and ions, and negatively charged dust on the basic properties (critical Mach number, amplitude and width) of the arbitrary amplitude electro-acoustic SWs are systematically and explicitly examined. It is found that the combined effects of the adiabatic electrons and ions, and negatively charged dust significantly modify the basic properties (critical Mach number, amplitude and width) of the SWs. It is also found that due to the effect of the adiabaticity of electrons, the negative DIA SWs (which are found to exist in a dusty plasma containing isothermal electrons, cold ions and negatively charged static dust) disappear, i.e. due to the effect of adiabatic electrons, one cannot have negative DIA SWs for any possible set of dusty plasma parameters.