Reflection of an ion-acoustic soliton by plasma inhomogeneities

DOI10.1063/1.864292zbMath0518.76126OpenAlexW2033935626MaRDI QIDQ3668241

Hans H. Kuehl

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864292

zbMATH Keywords

energy transferreflected waveweakly inhomogeneousion-acoustic solitonoppositely traveling, weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive ion-acoustic wavestrailing shelf and soliton amplitude decrease

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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