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Second-order dust acoustic wave theory
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Second-order dust acoustic wave theory

Robert L Merlino
Physica scripta, Vol.85(3), 035506
03/01/2012
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/85/03/035506

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Abstract

A second-order perturbation theory for non-dispersive, undamped dust acoustic waves is presented. The analysis leads to a second-order wave equation with source terms consisting of (nonlinear) products of first-order terms. The nonlinear effects included in this analysis might be useful in explaining the non-sinusoidal waveforms that are observed with large-amplitude, self-excited dust acoustic waves.

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