4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

Beam-driven slow and fast electron-acoustic solitons in three-electron temperature space plasmas

7 Jul 2016, 11:10
20m
Kramer Law building

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Oral Presentation Track D2 - Space Science Space Science

Speaker

Mr Lifa Nicholas Mbuli (SANSA/University of the Western Cape(UWC))

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Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

(R. Bharuthram, rbharuthram@uwc.ac.za)
University of the Western Cape(UWC)

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PhD

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This study on nonlinear potential structures follows from our study of linear instabilities associated with the slow and fast electron-acoustic waves in a model with stationary cool electrons, warm electrons (drifting parallel to an external ambient magnetic field), stationary hot electrons and stationary ions. All species are treated as adiabatic fluids. The Sagdeev pseudo-potential approach is used to investigate nonlinear structures of arbitrary amplitudes. The soliton existence regions are found to be limited by the number
densities of the plasma constituents or by the occurrence of double layers. The study will focus predominantly on the effects of the magnitude of beam speed (of the warm electrons) on the existence regions of solitons.

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Primary author

Mr Lifa Nicholas Mbuli (SANSA/University of the Western Cape(UWC))

Co-authors

Prof. Ramesh Bharuthram (University of the Western Cape(UWC)) Dr Shimul Maharaj (SANSA/University of the Western Cape(UWC))

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