Abstract
Much interest was shown towards the studies on nonlinear stability in the late sixties. Plasma instabilities play an important role in plasma dynamics. More attention has been given towards stability analysis after recognizing that they are one of the principal obstacles in the way of a successful resolution of the problem of controlled thermonuclear fusion. Nonlinearity and dispersion are the two important characteristics of plasma instabilities. Instabilities and nonlinearity are the two important and interrelated terms. In our present work, the continuity and momentum equations for both ions and electrons together with the Poisson equation are considered as cold plasma model. Then we have adopted the modified reductive perturbation technique (MRPT) from Demiray [1] to derive the higher order equation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). In this work, detailed mathematical expressions and calculations are done to investigate the changing character of the modulation of ion acoustic plasma wave through our derived equation. Thus we have extended the application of MRPT to derive the higher order equation. Both progressive wave solutions as well as steady state solutions are derived and they are plotted for different plasma parameters to observe dark/bright solitons. Interesting structures are found to exist for different plasma parameters.
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