7-11 July 2014
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=16&confId=34"><font color=#0000ff>SAIP2014 Proceedings published on 17 April 2015</font></a>

Polarity changes of small-amplitude ion-acoustic and electron-acoustic solitons in multi-fluid space plasmas

8 Jul 2014, 10:20
20m
D Les 204

D Les 204

Oral Presentation Track D2 - Space Science Space

Speaker

Dr Carel Olivier (South African National Space Agency)

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Dr. Shimul Maharaj smaharaj@sansa.org.za

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The properties of ion-acoustic and electron-acoustic solitons are studied for fluid models describing three-component and four-component space plasmas. Each plasma model is composed of one or two (different temperatures but same mass) ion species and one or two (different temperatures) electron species. We use a reductive perturbation method to derive Korteweg- deVries equations that describe small-amplitude solitons for each model. The results are shown to be in good agreement with arbitrary amplitude soliton results available in the literature. A comparison of the results for the different models will provide insight into how polarity changes in the observed soliton structures are related to the plasma composition.

Primary author

Dr Carel Olivier (South African National Space Agency)

Co-authors

Prof. Ramesh Bharuthram (University of the Western Cape) Dr Shimul Kumar Maharaj (South African National Space Agency)

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