CUTOFF CONDITIONS AND EXISTENCE DOMAINS FOR LARGE-AMPLITUDE ION-ACOUSTIC SOLITONS AND DOUBLE-LAYERS IN FLUID PLASMAS

It is shown how existence domains for arbitrary-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons and double layers are determined numerically by cut-off conditions on the corresponding Sagdeev potential. A two-electron-temperature model is considered, and in positive-ion plasmas the cut-off conditions are given in terms of the electron parameters, while for negative-ion plasmas such conditions are described in terms of parameters characterizing the role of the negative ion species. © 1990, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.