Title :
Tsunami in a Complex (Dusty) Plasma
Author :
Samsonov, D. ; Durniak, C. ; Zhdanov, S. ; Morfill, G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Abstract :
A tsunami is a wave with small amplitude offshore that dramatically increases in shallow waters. Here, we present an experimental observation and a molecular dynamics simulation of such amplitude increase of solitons in inhomogeneous crystalline monolayer complex plasma. Complex (dusty) plasmas are mixtures of mesoscopic particles with ion-electron plasmas, which are used to study wave phenomena at the kinetic level with the motion of every particle traced.
Keywords :
dusty plasmas; molecular dynamics method; plasma kinetic theory; plasma simulation; plasma solitons; dusty plasma; inhomogeneous crystalline monolayer complex plasma; ion-electron plasmas; kinetic level; mesoscopic particles; molecular dynamics simulation; plasma soliton amplitude increase; tsunami; wave phenomena; Damping; Dynamics; Lattices; Plasmas; Solitons; Tsunami; Wire; Complex (dusty) plasma; soliton; tsunami;
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPS.2011.2146281
