Optimal large time behavior of the compressible bipolar Navier–Stokes–Poisson system

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the 3D compressible bipolar Navier-Stokes-Poisson (BNSP) system. Our main purpose is three-fold: First, under the assumption that H l ∩ L 1 (l ≥ 3)-norm of the initial data is small, we prove the time decay rates of the solution as well as its spatial derivatives from the first-order to the highest-order. Similar to the results on the heat equation and the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, these decay rates for the BNSP system are optimal. Second, for well-chosen initial data, we also show the lower bounds on the decay rates. Third, we give the explicit influences of the electric field on the qualitative behaviors of solutions, which are totally new as compared to the results for the compressible unipolar Navier-Stokes-Poisson (UNSP)