The properties of dust ion-acoustic shock waves in an unmagnetized dusty plasma, whose constituents are adiabatic ion fluid, Boltzmann electrons, and static dust, are investigated by employing the reductive perturbation method. The Burgers equation is derived and its stationary analytical solution is numerically analyzed. It has been found that both the amplitude and the width decrease with the increase of the ion-fluid temperature. The implications of our results in space and laboratory dusty plasmas are briefly discussed.
A four-component dusty plasma consisting of electrons, ions, and negative as well as positive dust particles has been considered. The basic features of shock waves that may exist in such a four-component dusty plasma have been theoretically investigated by the reductive perturbation method. The implications of our results in different regions of space (viz. cometary tails, mesosphere, Jupiter's magnetosphere, etc.) are briefly discussed.
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