Improved Korteweg-deVries Equation for Ion-Acoustic Waves
- 1 December 1972
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 15 (12), 2446-2447
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1693893
Abstract
The Korteweg‐deVries equation describing nonlinear ion‐acoustic waves in a plasma with finite ion temperature is derived and the temperature dependences of soliton width and speed are obtained.Keywords
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