Extrapolated elliptic regularity and application to the van Roosbroeck system of semiconductor equations

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2021.01.032MaRDI QIDQ2656285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hannes Meinlschmidt, Joachim Rehberg

Publication date 11 March 2021

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11379

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic regularityfractional Sobolev spacesnonsmooth geometrysemiconductor equationsSneiberg stability theoremvan Roosbroeck system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) PDEs in connection with semiconductor devices (35Q81) PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data (35R05) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Abstract: In this paper we present a general extrapolated elliptic regularity result for second order differential operators in divergence form on fractional Sobolev-type spaces of negative order $X_D^{s-1,q}(Omega)$ for $s>0$ small, including mixed boundary conditions and with a fully nonsmooth geometry of $Omega$ and the Dirichlet boundary part $D$. We expect the result to find applications in the analysis of nonlinear parabolic equations, in particular for quasilinear problems or when treating coupled systems of equations. To demonstrate the usefulness of our result, we give a new proof of local-in-time existence and uniqueness for the van Roosbroeck system for semiconductor devices which is much simpler than already established proofs.

Review text

The authors consider the second-order differential operator in divergence form \(-\nabla\cdot \rho \nabla\), where \(\rho\) is a bounded measurable uniformly-a.e. positive definite coefficient matrix defined on a bounded domain \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d\) with nonsmooth boundary. By using an extrapolation technique, under some assumptions, they prove that there exists a positive number \(\bar s\) such that the regularity property \[-\nabla \cdot \rho \nabla u\in W_D^{s-1,q}(\Omega)\,\,\,\Rightarrow \,\,\,u\in W_D^{1+s,q}(\Omega)\leqno(1)\] holds for some \(q\in (1,\infty)\) and \(s\in (-\bar s,\bar s)\), where \(D\) is a subset of \(\Omega\). Here the subscript \(D\) means that the boundary trace on \(D\) is zero. The property (1) is also established for second-order operators with lower order terms and for boundary forms which arise from Robin boundary conditions. The local-in-time existence and uniqueness for the van Roosbroeck system for semiconductor devices using the extrapolated elliptic regularity result are finally obtained.

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