The pseudoforce approach to fully nonlinear plasma excitations

In this paper, we develop a technique to study the dynamic structure of oscillations in plasmas. We consider the hydrodynamic model and reduce the system of closed equations to the system of differential equations with integrable Hamiltonian. Then, using the analogy of pseudoparticle oscillation in the pseudoforce field, we generalize the Hamiltonian to include the dissipation and external driving force effects. The developed method is used to study various features of electron-ion plasmas with different equations of state for ions. It is shown that this method can be used in the analysis of superposed fully nonlinear oscillations and even the sheath structure of plasmas. The generalized pseudoforce equation is then used to study the dynamics of damped periodically forced nonlinear ion acoustic oscillations in plasmas with adiabatic and isothermal ion fluids. We found striking differences in dynamics of oscillations in these plasmas. The fundamental difference in the dynamic character of oscillations betw...