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Published on: August 17, 2017
Nonlinear electrostatic ion cyclotron wave collapse and formation of wave packets in the presence of trapped
Akash Biswas1, Debkumar Chakraborty1, Samiran Ghosh1
1Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, 92 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India.
Abstract:
The weakly nonlinear and dispersive electrostatic ion cyclotron wave dynamics in the presence of Schamel distributed trapped electrons is studied in collisionless plasmas. The dynamics of the nonlinear wave is shown to be governed by a Schamel-Ostrovsky type equation. Analytical and numerical solutions of this equation reveal the collapse of a solitary (localized) pulse at a critical time that depends on the trapping parameter and the strength of the magnetic field. The time-dependent computational result is noteworthy, which predicts the formation of wave packets (wave group) beyond the critical time. The results are in good agreement with the astrophysical observations in auroral plasmas.
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