Abstract
The propagation of solitary waves in an unmagnetized collisional dusty plasma consisting of a negatively charged dust fluid, positively charged ions, isothermal electrons, and background neutral particles is studied. The ionization, ion loss, ion-neutral, ion-dust, and dust-neutral collisions are considered. Applying a reductive perturbation theory, a damped Korteweg-de Vries (DKdV) equation is derived. On the other hand, at a critical phase velocity, the dynamics of solitary waves is governed by a damped modified Korteweg-de Vries (DMKdV) equation. The nonlinear properties of solitary waves in the two cases are discussed.