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Dust Solitons in Reactive Plasma of a Spherical Glow Discharge
Author(s) -
Sukhinin G. I.,
Sakhapov S. Z.,
Fedoseev A. V.,
Novopashin S. A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.201500100
Subject(s) - dissipative system , plasma , glow discharge , dusty plasma , physics , atomic physics , mechanics , astrophysics , materials science , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics
Abstract The formation of clouds of dust particles at the edge of striations of a spherical discharge in ethanol was observed. Periodically, a dust cloud experienced sudden explosion, split into two clouds, which moved in the opposite directions (to the centre of spherical discharge and to the chamber wall). The velocity of the dust cloud was the exponentially decaying function of time with a surprisingly small damping rate as in the case of dissipative dust solitory waves. (© 2016 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)