A note on the cylindrical waves with transverse distortion in a plasma with vortex electron distribution

Abstract

In the present work, employing the conventional reductive perturbation method and the nonlinear field equations of a plasma consisting of a cold electron uid, hot electrons obeying a non-isothermal (trapped/vortex-like) distribution and station-ary ions with transverse distortion, we studied the propagation of nonlinear waves in such a plasma medium and obtained the modified CKP equation. Seeking a progressive wave solution to this evolution equation we obtained the exact analytical solution. It is observed that the speed of the solitary wave is directional dependent and the wave front is not circularly cylindrical surface any more.