arXiv · 2608.13356
Global Stability and Energy Growth in the Sheared Vlasov--Poisson--Boltzmann System
Abstract
We study the Vlasov--Poisson--Boltzmann system on the three-dimensional torus under uniform shear flow. For Maxwell molecules with Grad's angular cutoff and sufficiently small shear rate, we consider perturbations around the spatially homogeneous self-similar profile of the sheared Boltzmann equation. In self-similar variables, we prove the global stability of this profile, including global existence and uniqueness, the exponential decay of nonzero-spatial derivatives in weighted $L^\infty$ spaces, and the uniform boundedness of the renormalized perturbation. The analysis combines a Caflisch's decomposition, Guo's $L^\infty$--$L^2$ estimates, macro--micro analysis, and a spectral study of the zero-frequency mode. We further derive a closed zero-frequency system for a renormalized total energy and suitable second-order moments, which yields a precise large-time description of the shear-induced energy growth.
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Zhida Chang, Mingying Zhong. 2026-08-13. Global Stability and Energy Growth in the Sheared Vlasov--Poisson--Boltzmann System. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13356
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