On Multidimensional Axisymmetric Oscillations of a Collisional Cold Plasma

Oscillation, growth of solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M10) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60)

Abstract: We study the influence of the friction term on the radially symmetric solutions of the repulsive Euler-Poisson equations with a non-zero background, corresponding to cold plasma oscillations in many spatial dimensions. It is shown that for any arbitrarily small constant non-negative constant friction coefficient, there exists a neighborhood of the zero stationary solution in the

C^{1}

norm such that the solution of the Cauchy problem with initial data belonging to this neighborhood remains globally smooth in time. Moreover, this solution stabilizes to the zero as

t o i n f t y

. This result contrasts with the situation of zero friction, where any small deviation from the zero equilibrium generally leads to a blow-up. Our method allows us to estimate the lifetime of smooth solutions. Further, we prove that for any initial data, one can find such friction coefficient that the respective solution to the Cauchy problem keeps smoothness for all

t > 0

and stabilizes to zero. We also present the results of a numerical experiment for a physically reasonable situation, which allows us to estimate the value of the friction coefficient, which makes it possible to suppress the formation of singularities of the solution.

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