The paper presents analytical study on the effect of ambipolar diffusion on the flow of a two-component plasma gas in the Earth’s Planetary Ionosphere as a model to examine the ions-neutral and electrons-neutral atom interactions. The problem which consists of a set of partial non-linear differential equations was addressed using a plane wave and perturbation method of solutions. The result indicates that plasma frequency and electron-density in the Ionosphere increase with increase in magnetic field strength as well as with radiation and free convection parameters. It is observed that for; 
the plasma interactive state becomes more stable, otherwise some bit of oscillation is noticed. The stability is seen to depend on the magnetic (M2) and thermal convection (Gr) parameters. Under this condition the signal propagation becomes less diffuse when the frequency of the signal is far greater than the plasma frequency, that is, ω >> p. The study aids our understanding of the effect of coupling frequency on the propagation of satellite signals through the ionosphere.
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Ambipolar Diffusion, Two-Component Plasma Flow, Planetary Ionosphere
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abstract = {The paper presents analytical study on the effect of ambipolar diffusion on the flow of a two-component plasma gas in the Earth’s Planetary Ionosphere as a model to examine the ions-neutral and electrons-neutral atom interactions. The problem which consists of a set of partial non-linear differential equations was addressed using a plane wave and perturbation method of solutions. The result indicates that plasma frequency and electron-density in the Ionosphere increase with increase in magnetic field strength as well as with radiation and free convection parameters. It is observed that for; the plasma interactive state becomes more stable, otherwise some bit of oscillation is noticed. The stability is seen to depend on the magnetic (M2) and thermal convection (Gr) parameters. Under this condition the signal propagation becomes less diffuse when the frequency of the signal is far greater than the plasma frequency, that is, ω >> p. The study aids our understanding of the effect of coupling frequency on the propagation of satellite signals through the ionosphere.},
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