Response to “Comment on ‘A new mathematical approach for finding the solitary waves in dusty plasma’ ” [Phys. Plasmas6, 4392 (1999)]

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 4394-4397 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Das ◽  
Jnanjyoti Sarma
1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 3918-3923 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Das ◽  
Jnanjyoti Sarma

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 2305-2306 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Roychoudhury ◽  
Soma Mukherjee

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-516
Author(s):  
Frank Verheest

In a recent paper ‘Propagation of solitary waves and shock wavelength in the pair plasma (J. Plasma Phys. 78, 525–529, 2012)’, Malekolkalami and Mohammadi investigate nonlinear electrostatic solitary waves in a plasma comprising adiabatic electrons and positrons, and a stationary ion background. The paper contains two parts: First, the solitary wave properties are discussed through a pseudopotential approach, and then the influence of a small dissipation is intuitively sketched without theoretical underpinning. Small dissipation is claimed to lead to a shock wave whose wavelength is determined by linear oscillator analysis. Unfortunately, there are errors and inconsistencies in both the parts, and their combination is incoherent.


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