Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1859042 Physics Letters A 2016 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Solitary and shock waves can be excited in kinetic and hydrodynamic regime, respectively.•Nonadiabatic dust charge fluctuation stands for the damping of solitary waves.•Dust viscosity accounts for the formation of dust acoustic shock waves.

The combined effects of nonadiabatic dust charge fluctuation and strongly coupled dust particles on the nonlinear propagation of dust acoustic (DA) waves in dusty plasma consisting of nonthermal electrons and trapped ions with vortex-like distribution are presented here. We use generalized viscoelastic hydrodynamic model for dust particles. In the weak nonlinearity limit, a modified Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation with a damping term and a KdV–Burger equation have been derived in the kinetic regime and hydrodynamic regime, respectively. The approximate analytical solitary solution of modified KdV equation is derived in the weak nonadiabatic dust charge variation limit, which shows that the amplitude of DA solitary waves decreases with time. The presence of viscosity due to strong coupling stands for the formation of DA shock waves in the hydrodynamic regime. The results show that the DA shock waves will be oscillating one for weak viscosity and will become monotonic ones for large viscosity.

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