The effect of dust grain pressure on the head-on collision of two dust-acoustic solitary waves in non-magnetized, collisionless, and strongly coupled dust plasma has been investigated [J. Plasma Phys. (2020), 86, 905,860,111]. In this paper, the model is augmented by incorporating the ion drag force on dust grains. By way of the extended perturbation method of Poincaré-Lighthill-Kuo, Korteweg-de Vries equations are derived. The wave characteristics along with the phase shifts after the head-on collision are analytically established and numerically assessed. It revealed a non-negligible decrease in the wave amplitude and the phase shift.
K E Y W O R D Shead-on collision, ion drag force, Korteweg-de Vries equation, nonlinear waves in plasmas, perturbation method, solitary waves