Investigation of nonextensivity trapped electrons effect on the solitary ion-acoustic wave using fractional Schamel equation
- 1 August 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 23 (8), 082109
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960668
Abstract
Ion-acoustic (IA) solitary wave propagation is investigated by solving the fractional Schamel equation (FSE) in a homogenous system of unmagnetized plasma. This plasma consists of the nonextensive trapped electrons and cold fluid ions. The effects of the nonextensive q-parameter, electron trapping, and fractional parameter have been studied. The FSE is derived by using the semi-inverse and Agrawal's methods. The analytical results show that an increase in the amount of electron trapping and nonextensive q-parameter increases the soliton ion-acoustic amplitude in agreement with the previously obtained results. However, it is vice-versa for the fractional parameter. This feature leads to the fact that the fractional parameter may be used to increase the IA soliton amplitude instead of increasing electron trapping and nonextensive parameters.Keywords
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