Nonlinear electronic streaming instability in lunar plasmas
The nonlinear dynamics of bi-electronic streaming instability (BSI) is investigated in lunar plasma environments using the nonlinear WKB method. It is seen that the considered instability saturation is governed by a standard form of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. It has a unique set of multiparametric nonlinear convective and linear dispersive coefficients. We semi-analytically reveal the instability saturation, principally in diverse solitary wave forms, alongside their basic conservation laws, in a broader perspective horizon. The sensitive frame velocity-dependency of the derived rarefactive solitary structures is illustrated, alongside the streaming velocity effects. It is interestingly found that such wave-spectral patterns completely disappear for a particular value of the relative streaming velocity (frame-flow equalisation). This study fairly maps the investigated nonlinear BSI saturation amongst the Kaguya-observed electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs) observationally reported elsewhere.
Authors
- Partha Pratim Deka
- A. Atteya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-1180)
- Pralay Kumar Karmakar
Institutions
- Tezpur University (IN)
- Alexandria University (EG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2026-05-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-53901-w
- Primary Topic
- Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00