Global solutions for the two dimensional Euler-Poisson system with attractive forcing

Yongki Lee

Published 2020-07-15Version 1

The Euler-Poisson(EP) system describes the dynamic behavior of many important physical flows. In this work, a Riccati system that governs the flow's gradient is studied. The evolution of divergence is governed by the Riccati type equation with several nonlinear/nonlocal terms. Among these, the vorticity accelerates divergence while others suppress divergence and enhance the finite time blow-up of a flow. The growth of the latter terms are related to the Riesz transform of density and non-locality of these terms make it difficult to study global solutions of the multi-dimensional EP system. Despite of these, we show that the Riccati system can afford to have global solutions under a suitable condition, and admits global smooth solutions for a large set of initial configurations. To show this, we construct an auxiliary system in 3D space and find an invariant space of the system, then comparison with the original 2D system is performed. The present work generalizes several previous so-called restricted/modified EP models.