Excitation of dust acoustic shock waves in an inhomogeneous dusty plasma

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العنوان: Excitation of dust acoustic shock waves in an inhomogeneous dusty plasma
المؤلفون: Arora, Garima, Bandyopadhyay, P., Hariprasad, M. G., Sen, A.
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Plasma Physics
الوصف: An experimental investigation of the propagation characteristics of shock waves in an inhomogeneous dusty plasma is carried out in the Dusty Plasma Experimental (DPEx) device. A homogeneous dusty plasma, made up of poly-dispersive kaolin particles, is initially formed in a DC glow discharge Argon plasma by maintaining a dynamic equilibrium of the pumping speed and the gas feeding rate. Later, an equilibrium density inhomogeneity in the dust fluid is created by introducing an imbalance in the original dynamic equilibrium. Non-linear wave structures are then excited in this inhomogeneous dusty plasma by a sudden compression in the dust fluid. These structures are identified as shock waves and their amplitude and width profiles are measured spatially. The amplitude of a shock structure is seen to increase whereas the width broadens as it propagates down a decreasing dust density profile. A modified-KdV-Burger equation is derived and used to provide a theoretical explanation of the results including the power law scaling of the changes in the amplitude and width as a function of the background density.
Comment: This manuscript contains 10 pages with 10 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/5.0009397
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09427
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2007.09427
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv