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Nonlinear ion‐acoustic cnoidal wave in electron‐positron‐ion plasma with nonextensive electrons
Author(s) -
Farhadkiyaei Forough,
Dorranian Davoud
Publication year - 2018
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.201600076
Subject(s) - cnoidal wave , physics , korteweg–de vries equation , plasma , electron , ion , positron , atomic physics , nonlinear system , quantum mechanics , wave packet
Effects of plasma nonextensivity on the nonlinear cnoidal ion‐acoustic wave in unmagnetized electron‐positron‐ion plasma have been investigated theoretically. Plasma positrons are taken to be Maxwellian, while the nonextensivity distribution function was used to describe the plasma electrons. The known reductive perturbation method was employed to extract the KdV equation from the basic equations of the model. Sagdeev potential, as well as the cnoidal wave solution of the KdV equation, has been discussed in detail. We have shown that the ion‐acoustic periodic (cnoidal) wave is formed only for values of the strength of nonextensivity ( q ). The q allowable range is shifted by changing the positron concentration ( p ) and the temperature ratio of electron to positron ( σ ). For all of the acceptable values of q , the cnoidal ion‐acoustic wave is compressive. Results show that ion‐acoustic wave is strongly influenced by the electron nonextensivity, the positron concentration, and the temperature ratio of electron to positron. In this work, we have investigated the effects of q, p , and σ on the characteristics of the ion‐acoustic periodic (cnoidal) wave, such as the amplitude, wavelength, and frequency.