Time evolution of cylindrical and spherical shock waves in an ultracold neutral plasma with non-Maxwellian electrons

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Published 14 December 2011 • Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation P. K. Shukla et al 2011 EPL 96 65002 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/96/65002

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1 International Centre for Advanced Studies in Physical Sciences, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr-University Bochum - D-44780 Bochum, Germany, EU

2 Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University - Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh

3 Also at: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego - La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

4 Also at: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Port Said University - Port Said, Egypt

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  1. Received 26 September 2011
  2. Accepted 2 November 2011
  3. Published
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Abstract

Properties of non-planar (cylindrical and spherical) shock waves in an ultracold neutral (UCN) plasma are analyzed by using the generalized hydrodynamic model for ions and non-Maxwellian electron distribution functions. For this purpose, non-planar modified Burgers equations have been derived and their numerical solutions are presented. The ion-acoustic shock waves, as predicted here, may be associated with nonlinear structures in the forthcoming laboratory UCN plasma experiments.

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