Abstract

The recurrence time of ion acoustic waves in a plasma has been obtained, as a function of the parameters describing the plasma, on the basis of the Korteweg---de Vries (KdV) equation and Whitham's extended KdV equation. Direct numerical solutions of the ionic Vlasov equation have also been obtained which quantitatively confirm the predictions of the KdV equation.

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