Effect of trapping and reflection on dust acoustic solitary waves in nonthermal opposite polarity dust plasmas

Abstract

Abstract The study of resonant wave-particle interactions (WPIs) is crucial in plasma systems where charged plasma particles interact via long-range electromagnetic waves. Our research focuses on exploring the impact of trapping and reflection, along with the superthermality of Kappa resonance electrons and ions, on the characteristics of dust acoustic waves (DAWs) in opposite polarity dust plasma (OPDP). Both linear and non-linear analyses were conducted. Two distinct types of dust acoustic modes, namely fast and slow, have been observed in the linear regime of two different instances of WPIs. Moving on to the non-linear regime, the Schamel KdV (SKdV) equation has been derived using the reductive perturbation technique. In both cases, a stationary solution in the form of a dust acoustic double-layer wave (DADLW) has been successfully obtained. Our findings are highly relevant to astrophysical plasma environments with non-thermal trapped and reflected particles.