Observations of Ion-Acoustic Cylindrical Solitons
- 18 March 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 32 (11), 581-583
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.32.581
Abstract
Cylindrical solitons are seen to evolve from compressive cylindrical pulses in a collisionless plasma. The properties of these solitons are found to be consistent with the known properties of one- and three-dimensional solitons.Keywords
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