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Dust acoustic solitary waves in a dusty plasma with variable dust charge and an arbitrary streaming ion beam

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Conditions for the existence of dust acoustic solitary waves have been investigated on the nonlinear, unmagnetized homogeneous dusty plasma with variable dust charge and an arbitrary streaming ion beam. The Sagdeev’s pseudopotential has been derived in terms of u d , the dust fluid flow velocity. It is found that there exists a critical value of \(u_{d_{0}} \)(≠0), the value of u d at which (u d ′)2 = 0, beyond which the solitary waves cease to exist. This critical value of u d depends on other parameters like dust temperature, etc.

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This work is supported by the UGC, India under SAP(DRS) programme. One of the authors (PC) is grateful to University of Malaya for support.

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  1. Plasma Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Malaya, 50603, KualaLumpur, Malaysia

    P. Chatterjee & C. S. Wong

  2. Department of Mathematics, Siksha Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 731 235, West Bengal, India

    P. Chatterjee

  3. Dhaltikuri K. N. High School, P.O.- Dhaltikuri, Birbhum, West Bengal, 731 129, India

    B. Das

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Chatterjee, P., Das, B. & Wong, C.S. Dust acoustic solitary waves in a dusty plasma with variable dust charge and an arbitrary streaming ion beam. Indian J Phys 86, 529–533 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-012-0074-6

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