Nonlinear dynamical modelling of high frequency electrostatic drift waves using fluid theoretical approach in magnetized plasma

TL;DR

This paper derives and analyzes a third order nonlinear evolution equation for high frequency electrostatic drift waves in magnetized plasma, decomposing it into simpler equations to find exact solutions and understand wave dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel third order nonlinear model for high frequency drift waves and provides a detailed analysis of its solutions and bifurcations using dynamical systems theory.

Findings

Derived a third order nonlinear evolution equation for drift waves

Decomposed the equation into two second order equations for analysis

Obtained exact and approximate solutions for the wave dynamics

Abstract

A novel third order nonlinear evolution equation governing the dynamics of high frequency electrostatic drift waves has been derived in the framework of a plasma fluid model in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma. The linear dispersion relation arising out of the fluid equations has been studied for the conventional low frequency and high frequency electrostatic drift waves. This equation is then decomposed into two second order equations as the order of the equation becomes reduced after this kind of decomposition under certain conditions. The detailed analysis of fixed points as well as bifurcations of the phase portraits have been performed using the theory of planar dynamical systems. Then some exact as well as approximate travelling wave solutions of this reduced nonlinear equation for the high frequency electrostatic drift waves are derived. As the other second order reduced equation is linear in nature, its exact oscillatory and exponential solutions are derived. The intersection of the solutions of these two reduced second order equations provides the solutions of the original third order nonlinear evolution equation; it is verified that the solutions of the reduced nonlinear second order equation are subsets of the oscillatory solution of the reduced linear second order equation in most cases whereas the intersection is different if the exponential solution of the reduced linear second order equation is considered. So the solutions of the reduced second order nonlinear equation can directly represent the solutions of the original third order nonlinear equation representing the dynamics of the nonlinear high frequency electrostatic drift waves if the oscillatory solution of the reduced linear equation is considered.