<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JEMAA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">1942-0730</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/jemaa.2015.73010</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JEMAA-54952</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Engineering</subject><subject> Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Collapse of Nonlinear Dust Sound Pulses in Cylindrical Dusty Plasma Waveguides
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>olodymyr</surname><given-names>Grimalsky</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Svetlana</surname><given-names>Koshevaya</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Anatoliy</surname><given-names>Kotsarenko</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Alvaro</surname><given-names>Zamudio-Lara</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Carmen (UNACAR), Ciudad Del Carmen, Mexico</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>CIICAp, Autonomous University of State Morelos (UAEM), Cuernavaca, Mexico</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>v_grim@yahoo.com(OG)</email>;<email>svetlana@uaem.mx(SK)</email>;<email>kotsarenko@gmail.com(AK)</email>;<email>azamudio@uaem.mx(AZ)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>03</day><month>03</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>07</volume><issue>03</issue><fpage>89</fpage><lpage>95</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>12</day>	<month>February</month>	<year>2015</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>20</month>	<year>March</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>24</day>	<month>March</month>	<year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  Nonlinear monopulses of dust sound waves in cylindrical dusty plasma waveguides bounded by a dielectric are investigated. The dusty plasma includes the positive ions as a light component and the negative dust as a heavy one. The dusty plasma with different masses of dust particles is considered. The set of hydrodynamic equations for the dust jointly with the Poisson one are used. The Boltzmann distribution is valid for the ions. The boundary conditions are applied at the smooth interface. When the moderate volume nonlinearity manifests, near the interface the variations of the dust concentration reach extremely high values, and the collapse of the dust sound waves occurs. In the cylindrical waveguides the collapse manifests at the values of the initial wave amplitudes essentially smaller than in the planar geometry. When the particles of lower masses are near the interface, the collapse realizes more rapidly.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Dusty Plasma</kwd><kwd> Cylindrical Waveguide</kwd><kwd> Different Masses</kwd><kwd> Wave Collapse</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Last time the investigations of dusty plasmas are of great interest, not only due to various technological applications, but also because of atmosphere and ionosphere contaminations by a space trash and volcano activity [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref1">1</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref5">5</xref>] . An important property of dusty plasmas is the support of various waves and oscillations, both linear and nonlinear ones [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref3">3</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref8">8</xref>] . The dusty plasmas can be bounded and can be the waveguides for plasma waves. In the bounded plasma waves the oscillations of the surface charge take place [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref6">6</xref>] . Even in the case when the volume nonlinearity is small, the variations of the dust concentration near interfaces can reach essential values [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref10">10</xref>] and cannot be considered as moderate. Earlier it demonstrated the sharp increase of the dust concentration in the thin layer near the boundary, which was called the collapse of the surface plasma waves [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref9">9</xref>] . The collapse of surface plasma wave was observed experimentally [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref11">11</xref>] .</p><p>In the present paper the nonlinear monopulses of dust sound waves in the cylindrical dusty plasma waveguides bounded by a dielectric are investigated. The waves propagate along OZ-axis, see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>.</p><p>The dusty plasma includes the positive ions as the light component and the negative dust as the heavy component. The set of hydrodynamic equations for the dust, namely, the continuity equation and the equation for the momentum jointly with the Poisson one for the electric field are used. The Boltzmann distribution is used for the ions. The electric and hydrodynamic boundary conditions are applied at the smooth interface dusty plasma-dielectric. The initial condition for the electric potential is monopulse-like, as well as for the perturbation of the dust concentration. The simulations have demonstrated that the wave collapse occurs near the interface at essentially smaller initial amplitudes, when compared with the planar case. The dynamics of the wave collapse depends on the distribution of the dust particles with different masses near the interface. When the particles of lower masses are near the interface, the collapse realizes more quickly.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Basic Equations</title><p>Consider the dusty cylindrical plasma waveguide, 0 &lt; r &lt; R, bounded by a dielectric of the permittivity e &gt; 1 at r &gt; R, see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>(a). The dusty plasma includes positively charged ions (+e) and negative charged dust particles (−Q). The temperature of ion fluid is T<sub>i</sub>, one of the dust is T<sub>d</sub>. It is assumed that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Note that T<sub>d</sub> is the temperature of the collective motion of the dust particles but not the temperature within each particle. The mass of the ion is m<sub>i</sub>, the mass of the dust particle is<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Generally the dust particles can possess different masses in different regions:<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>The set of hydrodynamic equations for the dust fluid concentration n<sub>d</sub> and the velocity v<sub>d</sub> is [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref12">12</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref14">14</xref>] :</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1640"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x8.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The ion concentration n<sub>i</sub> obeys the Boltzmann distribution:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1641"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x9.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>here n<sub>i</sub><sub>0</sub>, n<sub>d</sub><sub>0</sub> are unperturbed concentrations, in the neutral state there is<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x10.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Equation (1) are added by the Poisson equation for the electric potential j (in absolute units):</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1642"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x11.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The basic equations have been reduced to the undimensional form. The following units have been used for prepare of undimensional values like j<sub>Ti</sub> for the potential, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x12.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for distances,</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x13.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for time. The parameter m<sub>d0</sub> is some typical value of the dust particle mass. As the result the basic equations are:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1643"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x14.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Here n, v, u are undimensional dust concentration, velocity, and displacement;<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; the undimensional dust mass is<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x16.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. One can see that the dependence of mass on the coordinate results in an additional mechanism of nonlinearity. In calculations the value of T &#185; 0 is used, because in the limiting case T = 0 it is necessary to consider the motion of the surface charge separately. Our results are independent on the value of T, when T &lt; 0.01.</p><fig-group id="fig1"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref></label><caption><title> Geometry of the problem. Part (a) is the cylindrical dusty plasma waveguide, (b) is the planar one.</title></caption><fig id ="fig1_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x17.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig1_2"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x18.png"/></fig></fig-group><p>Within the dielectric at r &gt; R the Laplace equation is valid:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1644"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x19.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The system possesses the axial symmetry. Therefore, the dust velocity v has only the two components v<sub>r</sub>, v<sub>z</sub>.</p><p>The volume equations are added by the boundary condition at r = R. Namely, the electric potential j and the normal component of the electric induction D<sub>r</sub> should be continuous at r = R:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1645"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x20.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Also, because it is considered the case T &#185; 0, it should be<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Otherwise, in the limiting case T &#174; 0 the surface dust concentration should be considered separately. Note that the interface is assumed as smooth, so the tangential component of the dust velocity is<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>To solve the equations, the explicit 3-layer finite difference schemes have been applied for n, v<sub>r</sub>, v<sub>z</sub>, u<sub>r</sub>. For the Poisson equation at r &lt; R the fast Fourier transform has been used:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1646"><label>(7a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x23.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Equation (5) for the potential j within the dielectric at r &gt; R is:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1647"><label>(7b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x24.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The proper solution of Equation (7b) that decreases at r &#174; +&#165; is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1648"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x25.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Therefore, the boundary conditions (6) are rewritten as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1649"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x26.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In the center of the waveguide r = 0 the following condition is<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, because the radial component of the electric field is E<sub>r</sub> = 0 there due to symmetry.</p><p>Equations (7a), (9) have been solved by the finite differences within the region r &lt; R with several iterations, which show a good convergence.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Results of Simulations</title><p>Earlier it was demonstrated that a manifestation of nonlinearity near the surfaces is more essential than in the volume [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref10">10</xref>] . Moreover, it is possible to expect that an influence of the interface plasma?dielectric is more important in the cylindrical geometry than in the plane one, analogously to the wave collapse within framework of the nonlinear Schr&#246;dinger equation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref15">15</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref16">16</xref>] .</p><p>Equations (4) (5) added by boundary conditions (6) have been simulated. It is possible to solve these equations under the proper initial conditions. Namely, the initial monopulses of almost rectangular shape and of moderate maximum values <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> have been considered:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1650"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x29.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Here <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the perturbation of the dust concentration.</p><p>The following distribution of the masses of the dust particles has been used:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.54952-formula1651"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x31.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Namely, the values of the masses of the dust are m<sub>1</sub> and m<sub>2</sub> in the center of the waveguide and at the boundary, respectively; r<sub>q</sub> is the scale of variation of the mass. The used parameters are: z<sub>0</sub> = 10, R = 3, r<sub>q</sub> = 1 − 0.1, e = 4. The results of simulations are tolerant to the change of the radius of the cylindrical waveguide 2 &lt; R &lt; 6.</p><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> there are the dependencies of the maximum values of perturbations of the dust concentration &#241; on the time t in the cylindrical waveguide. The sharp peaks of the dust concentration near the surfaces are formed, which are localized both in longitudinal (z) and transverse (ρ) directions. The maximum values of &#241; are 40 - 50 times higher then in the volume. The nonlinearity ceases to be moderate near the surface. Moreover, under the levels of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, see Equation (10), the calculations overflow. It is possible to interpret this phenomenon of the sharp growing and the narrowing of the dust concentration near the surface as a manifestation of the wave collapse [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref11">11</xref>] . At the undimensional dust temperatures T &lt; 0.01 the dynamics of surface dust sound waves does not depend on the value of this temperature.</p><fig id="fig2"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref></label><caption><title> The dependencies of the maximum values of perturbations of dust concentration &#241; on the time t in the cylindrical waveguide. Curve 1 is for the initial amplitude a<sub>0</sub> = −0.012, constant masses m<sub>1</sub> = m<sub>2</sub> = 1; curve 2 is for a<sub>0</sub> = −0.012, m<sub>1</sub> = 0.5, m<sub>2</sub> = 1 (the lighter particles are within the volume), r<sub>q</sub> = 0.3; curve 3 is for a<sub>0</sub> = −0.012, m<sub>1</sub> = 1, m<sub>2</sub> = 0.5 (the lighter particles are near the boundary), r<sub>q</sub> = 0.3; curve 4 is for a<sub>0</sub> = −0.012, constant masses m<sub>1</sub> = m<sub>2</sub> = 0.5; curve 5 is for a<sub>0</sub> = −0.01, constant masses m<sub>1</sub> = m<sub>2</sub> = 1; curve 6 is for a<sub>0</sub> = −0.008, constant masses m<sub>1</sub> = m<sub>2</sub> = 1</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x33.png"/></fig><p>One can see that in the cylindrical geometry the wave collapse occurs at very low values of initial amplitudes of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. These values are one order lower than in the plane geometry [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref10">10</xref>] . The analogous dependencies for the planar waveguide are presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>. The thickness of the planar waveguide is L<sub>x</sub> = 6, e<sub>1</sub> =e<sub>2</sub> = 4. The shape of the initial perturbation of the dust concentration &#241; is the same as in the cylindrical geometry, Equation (10). In the planar geometry the wave collapse occurs at higher initial amplitudes<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Moreover, the tendencies to the collapse are different when the initial amplitudes are slightly above the threshold. Namely, the curves in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>, planar geometry, are oscillatory, whereas in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> the curves are similar to ones in the case of the explosive instability [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.54952-ref17">17</xref>] .</p><p>The wave dynamics depends on the values of the dust particle mass at the boundaries; see different curves in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> and corresponding <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>. The wave collapse occurs at smaller times t when the lighter particles are near the boundary: m<sub>2</sub> &lt; m<sub>1</sub>. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> are for the same masses of the particles near the center, m<sub>1</sub> = 1. The collapse occurs more quickly for the nonuniform distribution of masses m<sub>1</sub> &#185; m<sub>2</sub> within the waveguide, compare <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref> (greater masses of the dust particles near the boundary, m<sub>2</sub> = 1) and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> (smaller masses near the boundary, m<sub>2</sub> = 0.5). The dynamics of the plasma wave below the collapse is presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>. The perturbation of the dust concentration &#241; reaches its maximum value at some time moment and then decreases there.</p><fig id="fig3"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref></label><caption><title> The dependencies of the maximum values of perturbations of dust concentration &#241; on the time t in the planar waveguide of the thickness L<sub>x</sub> = 6. For all the cases the dust masses are constant m<sub>1</sub> = m<sub>2</sub> = 1. Curve 1 is for the initial amplitude a<sub>0</sub> = −0.13; curve 2 is for the initial amplitude a<sub>0</sub> = −0.12; curve 3 is for the initial amplitude a<sub>0</sub> = −0.11; curve 4 is for the initial amplitude a<sub>0</sub> = −0.10; curve 5 is for the initial amplitude a<sub>0</sub> = −0.08</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x36.png"/></fig><fig-group id="fig4"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref></label><caption><title> The spatiotemporal evolution of the perturbation of the dust concentration above the threshold for a<sub>0</sub> = −0.012, m<sub>1</sub> = m<sub>2</sub> = 1 (see curve 1 in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>). Part (a) is at t = 0; part (b) is for t = 4; part (c) is for t = 5; parts (d), (e) are for t = 5.42, the general view and the details near the boundary.</title></caption><fig id ="fig4_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x37.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig4_2"><label> (c)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x38.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig4_3"><label>(d)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x39.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig4_4"><label> (e)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x40.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig4_5"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x41.png"/></fig></fig-group><fig-group id="fig5"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref></label><caption><title> The spatiotemporal evolution of the perturbation of the dust concentration above the threshold for a<sub>0</sub> = −0.012, m<sub>1</sub> = 1, m<sub>2</sub> = 0.5 (see curve 3 in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>). Part (a) is at t = 4.5; part (b) is for t = 4.53. The initial pulse is the same as in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>(a).</title></caption><fig id ="fig5_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x42.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig5_2"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x43.png"/></fig></fig-group><fig-group id="fig6"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref></label><caption><title> The spatiotemporal evolution of the perturbation of the dust concentration below the threshold (curve 6 in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>). Part (a) is the initial distribution at t = 0; part (b) is at t = 8.</title></caption><fig id ="fig6_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x45.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig6_2"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x44.png"/></fig></fig-group><fig-group id="fig7"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref></label><caption><title> The spatiotemporal evolution of the pulses in the planar dusty waveguide. The initial data a<sub>0</sub> = −0.12 correspond to <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>, curve 1. Part (a) is the initial distribution at t = 0; part (b), is at t = 2; parts (c), (d) are at t = 4; parts (e), (f) are at t = 4.5.</title></caption><fig id ="fig7_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x48.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig7_2"><label> (c)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x47.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig7_3"><label>(d)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x46.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig7_4"><label> (e)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x51.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig7_5"><label> (f)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x50.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig7_6"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-9801596x49.png"/></fig></fig-group><p>The dynamics of wave collapse in the planar geometry is presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>. There is some difference between the wave dynamics in the cylindrical and planar geometries. In the cylindrical geometry, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>, there are two sharp peaks of the perturbation of the dust concentration in the transverse direction r. In the planar geometry, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>, there are two peaks in the longitudinal direction z.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Conclusions</title><p>The evolution of initial rectangular pulses of dust sound waves in the cylindrical plasma waveguides with dielectrics has demonstrated the essential surface nonlinearity near the interface. Under low values of the input amplitudes the values of the dust concentrations near the surface dusty plasma-dielectric reach high values, and the formation of narrow peaks of the dust concentration occurs. The nonlinearity near the surface ceases to be moderate, the compression of these pulses both in longitudinal and transverse directions takes place, and the wave collapse can be observed. The dynamics of the wave collapse depends on the distribution of the masses of the dust particles within the waveguide.</p><p>The estimated temporal and spatial scales have demonstrated that an appearance of the investigated phenomena of the nonlinear wave collapse could be possible in the dust objects within the atmosphere and in laboratory plasmas.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>The authors are grateful to SEP-CONACyT (Mexico) for a partial support of our work.</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.54952-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Shukla, P.K. and Mamun, A.A. (2003) Solitons, Shocks and Vortices in Dusty Plasmas. 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