ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS OF ONE－DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS FOR PLASMAS AND SEMICONDUCTORS

51. IntroductionIn mathematica1 modeling and numerical simulation for plasmas and semiconductorsdevices, the hydrodynamic model like the Euler-Poisson system is wildly used. Due tothe hyperbolic feature of the Euler equations, the study of weak solutions to the Euler-Poisson system is limited in one space dimension. In such situation, the existence of globalweak solutions can be proved under natural assumptions (see 22, 20, 17, 5, 18]). In aseries of papersl1l'l2'l31l4J l we are interested…

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS FOR PLASMAS AND SEMICONDUCTORS

This paper studies the zero-electron-mass limit, the quasi-neutral limit and the zero-relaxation-time limit in one-dimensional hydrodynamic models of Euler-Poisson system for plasmas and semiconductors. For each limit in the steady-state models, the author proves the strong convergence of the sequence of solutions and gives the corresponding convergence rate. In the time-dependent models, the author shows some useful estimates for the quasi-neutral limit and the zero-electron-mass limit. This study completes the analysis made in 11,12,13,14,19].