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A modified Korteweg-de Vries equation for ion acoustic wavess due to resonant electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Hans Schamel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik and Astrophysik, Munich

Abstract

The dependence of the asymptotic behaviour of small ion-acoustic waves on the number of resonant electrons is investigated by assuming an electron equation of state corresponding to the observed flat-topped electron distribution functions. The result is a modified Korteweg-de Vries equation with a stronger nonlinearity.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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