2014/03/11 by Renjun Duan, Duan, Renjun, Shuangqian Liu +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Mathematics · #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics #FOS: Mathematics #Navier-Stokes equation solutions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1403.2520
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In the paper we are concerned with the large time behavior of solutions to the one-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Poisson system in the case when the potential function of the self-consistent electric field may take distinct constant states at x=±∞. Precisely, it is shown that if initial data are close to a constant state with asymptotic values at far fields chosen such that the Riemann problem on the corresponding quasineutral Euler system admits a rarefaction wave whose strength is not necessarily small, then the solution exists for all time and tends to the rarefaction wave as t→+∞. The construction of the nontrivial large-time profile of the potential basing on the quasineutral assumption plays a key role in the stability analysis. The proof is based on the energy method by taking into account the effect of the self-consistent electric field on the viscous compressible fluid.