Self-organization in dusty plasmas

Dusty plasma systems as open and highly dissipative media have an inherent tendancy to self-organization resulting in formation of dissipative structures. Two types of self-organized structures are analyzed, the dust-plasma sheaths and dust nonlinear drift vortices. It is shown that all properties of the dust-plasma sheath depend on only one parameter - the Mach number of the ion flow, which have allowed zones and can be less than unity, in contrast to the features of the plasma sheath without influence of dust. It is also shown that high rate of dissipation in dusty plasma increases the growth of drift vortices.