Effect of superthermality on nonlinear electrostatic modes in plasmas
Plasma Physics
2014-03-10 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
The nonlinear propagation of electron-acoustic solitary structures is investigated in a plasma containing kappa-distributed (superthermal) electrons. Different types of localized structures are shown to exist. The occurrence of modulational instability is investigated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1108.3073,
title = {Effect of superthermality on nonlinear electrostatic modes in plasmas},
author = {S. Sultana and A. Danehkar and N. S. Saini and M. A. Hellberg and I. Kourakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3073},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, presented as a poster at the 37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Dublin, Ireland, 2010