The effect of the generalized (r, q) distribution on the non-linear propagation of dust acoustic waves (DAWs) in a dusty plasma consisting of variable-size dust grains is discussed. A Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is derived using the reductive perturbation technique (RPT). The dust size obeys the power-law dust size distribution (DSD). The present results reveal that rarefactive and compressive waves can propagate in the proposed plasma model. It is found that the spectral indices r and q influence the main properties of DAWs. Especially, the velocity, amplitude, and width of the DAW change drastically with r compared to changes in q.

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Bifurcation analysis of dust acoustic (DA) periodic waves in three components, unmagnetized dusty plasma system is investigated using the generalized (r, q) distribution function for ions and electrons. Depending on the different parameters of the system considered, all possible phase portraits, including periodic, homoclinic, superperiodic, and superhomoclinic trajectories, are presented. The existence of rarefactive and compressive solitary waves is proved. Also, the plasma system under consideration supports both nonlinear and supernonlinear DA periodic waves. It has been found that the double spectral indices r and q play a decisive effect on the bifurcation of the waves.