Effects of variable dust size, charge and mass on the characteristics of dust acoustic solitary waves in a magnetized dusty plasma

Abstract

The effect of dust size, mass and charge distributions on the characteristics of nonlinear dust acoustic solitary waves (DASW) in a two-temperature ion dusty plasma has been studied analytically. The mass and electrical charge of dust particles are assumed to be proportional with their size. Plasma is embedded in an external magnetic field with variable direction. Using a reductive perturbation method, the Zakharov–Kuznetsov (ZK) equation is derived and its solitary answers are extracted. The coefficients of the nonlinear term of the ZK equation are affected strongly by the size of dust particles when the relative size (the ratio of the largest dust radius to smallest dust radius) is less than 2. Both the width and amplitude of DASW increase with increasing relative size. The cyclotron frequency of the dust changes with the relative size of the dust particles. DASW width is influenced by the magnitude as well as direction of the external magnetic field, while its amplitude is independent of the magnitude of the external magnetic field. At each strength of the external magnetic field, there is an optimum magnitude for its direction at which the width of DASW is maximum.