Overtaking collision and phase shifts of dust acoustic multi-solitons in a four component dusty plasma with nonthermal electrons

Abstract

The nonlinear propagation and interaction of dust acoustic multi-solitons in a four component dusty plasma consisting of negatively and positively charged cold dust fluids, non-thermal electrons, and ions were investigated. By employing reductive perturbation technique (RPT), we obtained Korteweged-de Vries (KdV) equation for our system. With the help of Hirota's bilinear method, we derived two-soliton and three-soliton solutions of the KdV equation. Phase shifts of two solitons and three solitons after collision are discussed. It was observed that the parameters α, β, β1, μe, μi, and σ play a significant role in the formation of two-soliton and three-soliton solutions. The effect of the parameter β1 on the profiles of two soliton and three soliton is shown in detail.