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Nonlinear propagation of cylindrical and spherical dust-acoustic solitons in an unmagnetized dusty plasma consisting of cold dust grains, superthermal ions and electrons are investigated. For this purpose, the standard reductive perturbation method is employed to derive the cylindrical/spherical Korteweg-de-Vries equation which governs the dynamics of dust-acoustic solitons. The effects of nonplanar geometry and superthermal distributions on the cylindrical and spherical dust acoustic solitons structures are also studied by numerical calculation of the cylindrical/spherical Korteweg-de-Vries equation.
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Eslami, P., Mottaghizadeh, M. & Pakzad, H.R. Cylindrical and spherical dust acoustic solitary waves in dusty plasma with superthermal ions and electrons. Astrophys Space Sci 333, 263–268 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-011-0628-7
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