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A Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is derived for an ion acoustic surface wave propagating on the interface between a plasma and vacuum, using two-fluid equations. The nonlinearity responsible for the KdV equation is found to be the nonlinear current at the boundary.
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Hong et al. (1999) studied this question.
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