Speaker
Mr
Lifa Mbuli
(SANSA Space Science)
Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
Prof R. Bharuthram (rbharuthram@uwc.ac.za) University of the Western Cape
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
Yes
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?
No
Abstract content <br> (Max 300 words)<br><a href="http://events.saip.org.za/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=0&confId=34" target="_blank">Formatting &<br>Special chars</a>
Arbitrary amplitude slow and fast electron-acoustic solitons are investigated in a four-component unmagnetised plasma model consisting of cool, warm and hot electrons, and ions. In addition to modelling all species as adiabatic fluids, the effect of neglecting inertia and treating the warm and hot electrons, respectively, as Boltzmann distributed and non-thermal species are also examined. The admissible slow and fast electron-acoustic soliton existence regions are obtained by considering both the lower and upper Mach number limits. The possibility of obtaining supersolitons is also investigated.
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD, N/A)?
PhD
Please indicate whether<br>this abstract may be<br>published online<br>(Yes / No)
Yes
Primary author
Mr
Lifa Mbuli
(SANSA Space Science)
Co-authors
Prof.
Gurbax Lakhina
(Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India)
Prof.
Ramesh Bharuthram
(University of the Western Cape)
Prof.
Satyavir Singh
(Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India)
Dr
Shimul Maharaj
(SANSA Space Science)
