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A theoretical evolutionary model to analyze the dynamics of strongly nonlinear waves in inhomogeneous complex astrophysical viscous clouds on the gravito-electrostatic scales of space and time is procedurally set up. It compositionally consists of warm lighter electrons and ions (Boltzmanian); and cold massive bi-polar dust grains (inertial fluids) alongside vigorous neutral dynamics in quasi-neutral hydrodynamic equilibrium. Application of the Sagdeev pseudo-potential method reduces the inter-coupled structure equations into a pair of intermixed forced Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (\(f\)-KdVB) equations. The force-terms are self-consistently sourced by inhomogeneous gravito-electrostatic interplay. A numerical illustrative shape-analysis based on judicious astronomical parametric platform shows the electrostatic waves evolving as compressive dispersive shock-like eigen-modes. A unique transition from quasi-monotonic to non-monotonic oscillatory compressive shock-like patterns is found to exist. In contrast, the self-gravitational and effective perturbations grow purely as non-monotonic compressive oscillatory shock-like structures with no such transitory features. It is seen that the referral frame velocity acts as amplitude-reducing agent (stabilizing source) for the electrostatic fluctuations solely. A comparison in the prognostic light of various earlier satellite-based observations and in-situ measurements is presented. The paper ends up with synoptic highlights on the main implications and non-trivial applications in the interstellar space and cosmic plasma environments leading to bounded structure formation.
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Authors are thankful to the anonymous learned reviewers for insightful comments and constructive suggestions leading to improvements into the current form of the manuscript. The financial support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of New Delhi, Government of India, extended to the authors through the SERB Fast Track Project (Grant No. SR/FTP/PS-021/2011) is thankfully recognized.
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Appendix A: Coefficients of the electrostatic \(f\)-KdVB equation
The involved coefficients in the electrostatic \(f\)-KdVB equation (Eq. (23)) are defined as follows
and
Appendix B: Coefficients of the self-gravitational \(f\)-KdVB equation
The involved coefficients in the self-gravitational \(f\)-KdVB equation (Eq. (31)) are given as
and
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Karmakar, P.K., Haloi, A. Nonlinear waves in bipolar complex viscous astroclouds. Astrophys Space Sci 362, 94 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-017-3067-2
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