Structural stability of supersonic solutions to the Euler-Poisson system

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Abstract: The well-posedness for the supersonic solutions of the Euler-Poisson system for hydrodynamical model in semiconductor devices and plasmas is studied in this paper. We first reformulate the Euler-Poisson system in the supersonic region into a second order hyperbolic-elliptic coupled system together with several transport equations. One of the key ingredients of the analysis is to obtain the well-posedness of the boundary value problem for the associated linearized hyperbolic-elliptic coupled system, which is achieved via a delicate choice of multiplier to gain energy estimate. The nonlinear structural stability of supersonic solution in the general situation is established by combining the iteration method with the estimate for hyperbolic-elliptic system and the transport equations together.


The authors study the steady Euler-Poisson system for a flow of charged media and look for smooth supersonic solutions. The domain is a 2D rectangle, and the boundary data are of Dirichlet type. Well-posedness of the problem for the irrotational flow and small perturbations of initial and boundary data is proved.



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