Irrotational approximation to the one-dimensional bipolar Euler–Poisson system

Under the assumptions that initial data have sufficiently small total variation and that the initial data are supersonic (or are subsonic respectively), we prove that in any bounded domain the L 1 norm of the difference between the local solutions of the one-dimensional bipolar Euler–Poisson system and the potential flow system of the one-dimensional bipolar Euler–Poisson system with the same initial data can be bounded by the cube of the total variation of the initial data.