Abstract
The properties of linear dust acoustic (DA) waves in inhomogeneous viscous dusty plasmas with non-thermal electrons and ions have been investigated. A linear dispersion relation is obtained with the non-adiabatic dust charge fluctuation and fraction of nonthermality of electron-ion. The dependence of frequency and the damping rate of waves on the nonthermality fraction and dust kinematic viscosity coefficient are discussed. To study the dust acoustic shock waves, KdV-Burgers (KdV-B) equation for homogeneous dissipative dusty plasma has been considered and solved by means of tanh method. The obtained solution is a particular combination of a solitary wave with a Burgers shock wave. The present results are useful in the context of space plasma.