Modulational instability of ion-acoustic
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Xue Jukui
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Using the standard reductive perturbation technique, a nonlinear Schr⬠o odinger equation is derived to study the modulational instability of finite amplitude ion-acoustic waves (IAW) in an unmagnetized plasma consisting of warm adiabatic ions and non-thermal electrons. It is found that the presence