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The dust–ion–acoustic (DIA) solitary wave (SW) propagation in a magnetized dusty plasma consisting of mobile positive and heavy negative ions, nonthermal electrons and positrons is presented. By using reductive perturbation technique, three dimensional Zakharov–Kuznetsov (Z–K) equation is derived and the solution is obtained by using the tan-hyperbolic method. Here, the dust grain charging process by plasma constituents is represented by the equation following orbital motion limited (OML) theory. The characteristics features of solitary wave amplitudes arising due to different plasma parameters such as ions mass ratio, nonthermal parameters of electrons and positrons, temperature ratio of electrons and positrons, ions density ratio, and dust density ratio are analyzed. In this analysis, the influence of nonthermal electrons on solitary wave amplitude variation is observed as more significant than that of nonthermal positrons. The findings of this work can be helpful in understanding D, E, and F regions of the Earth's ionosphere, its mesosphere region, solar photosphere, and Titan's ionosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sheath formation in a weakly magnetized collisionless electronegative plasma consisting of electrons and negative and positive ions has been numerically investigated using the hydrodynamic equations. The electrons and negative ions are assumed to follow the Boltzmann relation. A sheath formation criterion has been analytically derived. This paper focuses on studying the sheath structure by varying the electronegativity. It has been observed that the presence of negative ions has a substantial effect on the sheath structure. The observations made in the present work have profound significance on processing plasmas, specifically in the semiconductor industry as well as in fusion studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]