Modulational instability of obliquely modulated ion-acoustic waves in a two-ion plasma

1986 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Chhabra ◽  
S. R. Sharma
1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. N. Nejoh

The nonlinear wave structures of large amplitude ion-acoustic waves are studied in a plasma with positrons. We have presented the region of existence of the ion-acoustic waves by analysing the structure of the pseudopotential. The region of existence sensitively depends on the positron to electron density ratio, the ion to electron mass ratio and the positron to electron temperature ratio. It is shown that the maximum Mach number increases as the positron temperature increases and the region of existence of the ion-acoustic waves spreads as the positron temperature increases. The present theory is applicable to analyse large amplitude ion-acoustic waves associated with positrons which may occur in space plasmas.


2013 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 833-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. DAS ◽  
R. P. SHARMA ◽  
N. YADAV

AbstractThe paper is concerned with the analytical study of nonlinear coupling of slow Alfvén wave (SW) with ion acoustic waves (IAWs) in high-β and low-β plasmas. Here the pump wave (SW) number density gets perturbed in the presence of IAW. The model equations of IAW and SW turn out to be the modified Zakharov system of equations when the ponderomotive nonlinearities are incorporated in the IAW and SW dynamics. Growth rate of modulational instability has been calculated. The relevance of these investigations for solar wind plasma and solar coronal plasma has also been discussed.


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