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Numerical experiments involving the interaction of two solitary waves of the ion acoustic plasma equations are described. An exact 2-soliton solution of the relevant KdV equation was fitted to the initial data, and good agreement was maintained throughout the entire interaction. The data demonstrates that the soliton interactions are virtually elastic
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Li, Y., Sattinger, D. Soliton Collisions in the Ion Acoustic Plasma Equations. J. math. fluid mech. 1, 117–130 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000210050006
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