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Global Hilbert Expansion for the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann System

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-14 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the Hilbert expansion for small Knudsen number ε\varepsilon for the Vlasov-Boltzmann-Poisson system for an electron gas. The zeroth order term takes the form of local Maxwellian: F0(t,x,v)=ρ0(t,x)(2πθ0(t,x))3/2evu0(t,x)2/2θ0(t,x), θ0(t,x)=Kρ02/3(t,x). F_{0}(t,x,v)=\frac{\rho_{0}(t,x)}{(2\pi \theta_{0}(t,x))^{3/2}} e^{-|v-u_{0}(t,x)|^{2}/2\theta_{0}(t,x)},\text{\ }\theta_{0}(t,x)=K\rho_{0}^{2/3}(t,x). Our main result states that if the Hilbert expansion is valid at t=0t=0 for well-prepared small initial data with irrotational velocity u0u_0, then it is valid for 0tε1/22k32k2,0\leq t\leq \varepsilon ^{-{1/2}\frac{2k-3}{2k-2}}, where ρ0(t,x)\rho_{0}(t,x) and u0(t,x) u_{0}(t,x) satisfy the Euler-Poisson system for monatomic gas γ=5/3\gamma=5/3.

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@article{arxiv.0910.5512,
  title  = {Global Hilbert Expansion for the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann System},
  author = {Yan Guo and Juhi Jang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.5512},
  year   = {2015}
}