Multiple soliton-like solutions and similarity reductions of a spherical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation from plasma physics

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Abstract

A spherical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (SKP) equation for dust acoustic or ion-acoustic waves is studied. Similarity reductions of the SKP equation are obtained with the one-parameter (e) Lie group of infinitesimal transformations and Clarkson-Kruskal direct method. The SKP equation is also solved with a generalized tanh function method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)155-160
Number of pages6
JournalCommunications in Theoretical Physics
Volume47
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jan 2007

Keywords

  • SKP equation
  • Similarity reduction
  • Soliton-like solution

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