Dust-ion-acoustic shock waves in nonextensive dusty multi-ion plasmas

Abstract

A theoretical and numerical analysis of dust-ion-acoustic (DIA) shock waves has been carried out in an unmagnetized dusty multi-ion plasma containing nonextensive electrons, inertial negatively charged heavy ions, positively charged Maxwellian light ions, and negatively charged stationary dusts. The normal mode analysis is used to examine the linear properties of DIA waves (DIAWs). The reductive perturbation technique is employed in order to derive the nonlinear time evolution Burgers type equation (which describes the shock waves properties). The basic features (viz. polarity, amplitude, width, etc.) of the DIA shock waves are investigated. It is found that the basic features of DIA shock waves are significantly modified depending on the intrinsic parameters (viz. electron nonextensivity, heavy ions kinematic viscosity, heavy-to-light ion number density ratio, electron-to-light ion temperature ratio, etc.) of the considered plasma system. Both polarities (positive and negative potential) are also found to exist in the plasma under consideration in this paper. The findings of this investigation may be used in understanding the wave propagation in laboratory and space plasmas.