An Euler-Poisson system in plasmas (Q4954065)

The author considers the Euler-Poisson type system \[ \begin{aligned} \partial_0\rho+ \text{div} (\rho u) & = 0\\ \partial_0(\rho U)+\text{div}(\rho U\otimes U) & =-\rho \text{grad} \Phi \end{aligned} \] with \(-\text{div grad} \Phi=4 \pi\rho\) in \(]0,T[\times \mathbb{R}^3,T\) some positive time horizon, as a model for plasmic flow, where \(U\) denotes the fluid velocity, \(\rho\) the density and \(\Phi\) the electric potential (decaying at \(\infty)\). For smooth solutions and \(\rho\neq 0\) the system can be re-written as a quasilinear (non-standard) evolution equation in block matrix form \[ \partial_0 V+\left(\begin{matrix} U\cdot\text{grad} & \rho \text{div}\\ 0 & U\cdot\text{grad} \end{matrix} \right)V= B(\cdot,V):= {0\choose -\text{grad} g*\rho} \] with \(V:=(\rho,U)^T\) subjet to the initial condition \(V(0,\cdot):=(\rho_0,U_0)^T\). Here \(g:={1\over |\cdot |}\). The paper presents a local existence and uniqueness result for the latter initial value problem with initial densities having compact support.