Ion thermal pressure effects on dust ion acoustic solitary waves in a dusty plasma obliquely propagating to an external magnetic field

Abstract

Effects of the isothermal ion pressure on the dust ion acoustic solitary waves (DIASWs) in a dusty plasma, which are obliquely propagating to an external magnetic field, are investigated based on the Sagdeev potential. It is found that as the ion temperature increases the speed of the DIASW increases. The increase is more effective for a higher value of the directional cosine l(z). The small amplitude solutions of the Sagdeev potential Psi(n) expanded up to delta n(3) and delta n(4), as was done in the previous study [Choi , Phys. Plasmas 12, 022304 (2005)], exhibit different behaviors with respect to the change in the ion temperature. The width and height of a double layer are found to decrease with the increase in the ion temperature for both the small and the large amplitude solutions. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.