On local weak solutions to Nernst–Planck–Poisson system

We study the one-dimensional nonlinear Nernst–Planck–Poisson system of partial differential equations with the class of nonlinear boundary conditions which cover the Chang–Jaffé conditions. The system describes certain physical and biological processes, for example ionic diffusion in porous media, electrochemical and biological membranes, as well as electrons and holes transport in semiconductors. The considered boundary conditions allow the physical system to be not only closed but also open. Theorems on existence, uniqueness, and nonnegativity of local weak solutions are proved. The main tool used in the proof of the existence result is the Schauder–Tychonoff fixed point theorem.     

Stability of the nonconstant stationary solution to the Poisson–Nernst–Planck–Navier–Stokes equations

We study the three-dimensional Cauchy problem of the Poisson–Nernst–Planck–Navier–Stokes equations. We first show that the corresponding stationary system has a unique semi-trivial solution under a general doping profile. Under initial small perturbations around such the semi-trivial stationary solution and small doping profile, we obtain the unique global-in-time solution to the non-stationary system. Moreover, we prove the asymptotic convergence of the solution toward the semi-trivial stationary solution as time tends to infinity.     

Global existence and temporal decay of large solutions for the Poisson–Nernst–Planck equations in low regularity spaces

We are concerned with the global existence and decay rates of large solutions for the Poisson–Nernst–Planck equations. Based on careful observation of algebraic structure of the equations and using the weighted Chemin–Lerner-type norm, we obtain the global existence and optimal decay rates of large solutions without requiring the summation of initial densities of a negatively and positively charged species that is small enough. Moreover, the large solution is obtained for initial densities belonging to the low regularity Besov spaces with different regularity and integral indices, which indicates more specific coupling relations between the difference and the summation of negatively and positively charged densities.     

A generalized Fourier–Hermite method for the Vlasov–Poisson system

BIT Numerical Mathematics - A generalized Fourier–Hermite semi-discretization for the Vlasov–Poisson equation is introduced. The formulation of the method includes as special cases the...     

The Wigner–Poisson–Fokker–Planck system: global-in-time solution and dispersive effects

This paper is concerned with the Wigner–Poisson–Fokker–Planck system, a kinetic evolution equation for an open quantum system with a non-linear Hartree potential. Existence, uniqueness and regularity of global solutions to the Cauchy problem in 3 dimensions are established. The analysis is carried out in a weighted L²$L^2$-space, such that the linear quantum Fokker–Planck operator generates a dissipative semigroup. The non-linear potential can be controlled by using the parabolic regularization of the system.     

Stabilization and stability for the spherically symmetric Navier–Stokes–Poisson system

We consider global behaviour of viscous compressible flows with spherical symmetry driven by gravitation and an outer pressure, outside a hard core. For a general state function $p=p\left(\rho \right)$, we present global-in-time bounds for solutions with arbitrarily large data. For non-decreasing $p$, the $\omega$-limit set for the density $\rho$ is studied. For increasing $p$, uniqueness and static stability of the stationary solutions (including variational aspects) are investigated. Moreover, stabilization rate bounds toward the statically stable solutions are given and their nonlinear dynamical stability is shown.     

Small amplitude limit of solitary waves for the Euler–Poisson system

The one-dimensional Euler–Poisson system arises in the study of phenomena of plasma such as plasma solitons, plasma sheaths, and double layers. When the system is rescaled by the Gardner–Morikawa transformation, the rescaled system is known to be formally approximated by the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation. In light of this, we show existence of solitary wave solutions of the Euler–Poisson system in the stretched moving frame given by the transformation, and prove that they converge to the solitary wave solution of the associated KdV equation as the small amplitude parameter tends to zero. Our results assert that the formal expansion for the rescaled system is mathematically valid in the presence of solitary waves and justify Sagdeev's formal approximation for the solitary wave solutions of the pressureless Euler–Poisson system. Our work extends to the isothermal case.     

Pointwise estimates of solutions for the multi-dimensional bipolar Euler–Poisson system

In the paper, we consider a multi-dimensional bipolar hydrodynamic model from semiconductor devices and plasmas. This system takes the form of Euler–Poisson with electric field and frictional damping added to the momentum equations. By making a new analysis on Green’s functions for the Euler system with damping and the Euler–Poisson system with damping, we obtain the pointwise estimates of the solution for the multi-dimensions bipolar Euler–Poisson system. As a by-product, we extend decay rates of the densities \({\rho_i(i=1,2)}\) in the usual L²-norm to the L^p-norm with \({p\geq1}\) and the time-decay rates of the momentums m_i(i = 1,2) in the L²-norm to the L^p-norm with p > 1 and all of the decay rates here are optimal.     

Decay of the two-species Vlasov–Poisson–Boltzmann system

We establish the time decay rates of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the two-species Vlasov–Poisson–Boltzmann system near Maxwellians via a refined pure energy method. The total density of two species of particles decays at the optimal algebraic rate as the Boltzmann equation, but the disparity between two species and the electric field decay at an exponential rate. This phenomenon reveals the essential difference when compared to the one-species Vlasov–Poisson–Boltzmann system or the Navier–Stokes–Poisson equations in which the electric field decays at the optimal algebraic rate, and compared to the Vlasov–Boltzmann system in which the disparity between two species decays at the optimal algebraic rate. Our achievement heavily relies on a reformulation of the problem which well displays the cancelation property of the two-species system, and our proof is based on a family of scaled energy estimates with minimum derivative counts and interpolations among them without linear decay analysis.