Stability of planar shock wave for the 3-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the stability of planar viscous shock wave for the 3-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson (NSP) system in the domain Ω:=R×T2 with T2=(R/Z)2. The stability problem of viscous shock under small 1-dimensional perturbations was solved in Duan-Liu-Zhang [7]. In this paper, we prove the viscous shock is still stable under small 3-d perturbations. Firstly, we decompose the perturbation into the zero mode and non-zero mode. Then we can show that both the perturbation and zero-mode time-asymptotically tend to zero by the anti-derivative technique and crucial estimates on the zero-mode. Moreover, we can further prove that the non-zero mode tends to zero with exponential decay rate. The key point is to estimate the non-zero mode of nonlinear terms involving electronic potential, see Lemma 6.1 below.