Regular Article

Cylindrical and spherical ion acoustic shock waves with two temperature superthermal electrons in dusty plasma

¹ Sikh National College, Banga 144505, India
² Department of Physics, DAV University, Jalandhar 144012, India
³ Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143 005, India

^a e-mail: sonabansal34@gmail.com

Received: 2 June 2020
Received in final form: 13 September 2020
Accepted: 28 September 2020
Published online: 3 December 2020

Abstract

In the present study, the cylindrical/spherical ion acoustic shock waves have been investigated in unmagnetized dusty plasma consisting of positive ions, immobile dust particles and kappa distributed cold and hot electrons. A multiple scale expansion method is employed to derive Burgers equation (BE) and modified Burgers equation (MBE) by including higher order nonlinearity. The basic characeristics of the shock waves have been analyzed numerically and graphically for different physical parameters relevant to space and laboratory dusty plasma environments through 2D figures. We show that the amplitude of the wave decreases faster as one departs away from the axis of the cylinder or centre of the sphere. Such decaying behaviour continues as time progresses. Furthermore, the parametric dependence of wave properties (amplitude, width) on kappa index, density and temperature of cold and hot electrons, concentration of dust particles, thermal effects and kinematic viscosity of ions has been studied in detail and findings obtained here will be beneficial to further astrophysical investigations.