Global large smooth solutions and overdamped limits for the damped isothermal Euler-Poisson system

Abstract: We consider the isothermal Euler-Poisson system with linear damping on a periodic domain in the large damping regime. For arbitrarily large smooth initial data with density bounded away from vacuum, we prove the global-in-time existence of smooth solutions. The argument is based on a large-damping bootstrap scheme, a modified density estimate revealing hidden parabolic dissipation, top-order weighted cancellations, and a comparison with an auxiliary drift-diffusion--Poisson system. We further prove exponential relaxation to the homogeneous equilibrium and establish a large-data overdamped limit as the damping coefficient tends to infinity. In the slow time scale, the density converges quantitatively to the large smooth solution of the drift-diffusion--Poisson system with the same initial density. After subtracting a fast initial layer from the rescaled flux, the flux converges quantitatively to the corresponding drift-diffusion flux.