Long-term regularity of the periodic Euler--Poisson system for electrons in 2D

Abstract

We study a basic plasma physics model--the one-fluid Euler--Poisson system on the square torus, in which a compressible electron fluid flows under its own electrostatic field. In this paper we prove long-term regularity of periodic solutions of this system in 2 spatial dimensions. Our main conclusion is that on a square torus of side length $R$, if the initial data is sufficiently close to a constant solution, then the solution is wellposed for a time at least $R/{\epsilon }^2(\log R{)}^{O(1)}$, where $\epsilon$ is the size of the initial data.

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