Abstract
An overview on theoretical works and numerical simulations on dusty plasmas with cylindrical symmetry is presented. The main purpose of these works has been to investigate strongly coupled dusty plasmas which are expected to be realized in the planned experiments by PK-4 on the International Space Station and experiments by PK-4J, a similar apparatus constructed here. The distribution of dust particles is analyzed, both analytically and numerically, first on the basis of the drift-diffusion equations as continuum and then numerical simulations have been performed, taking the effect of discreteness into account.
