Modulational instability of dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas with ultraviolet irradiation and nonadiabatic dust charge variation

Abstract

The combined effects of nonadiabatic dust charge fluctuation, ultraviolet irradiation, and transverse perturbation on the modulational instability of nonlinear dust acoustic (DA) waves in dusty plasma consisting of Boltzmann-distributed electrons, ions, as well as positively charged dust grain were presented here. By using the reductive perturbation technique, a three-dimensional modified Davey–Stewartson equation governing the nonlinear waves is derived. It is shown that the modulation properties of the DA waves were strongly affected by the nonadiabatic dust charge variation and photoelectrons and there was a maximum time for the modulational instability.