Steady States of Gas Ionization with Secondary Emission

DOI10.4310/MAA.2022.V29.N1.A1arXiv2003.10796MaRDI QIDQ6337315FDOQ6337315

Authors: Walter A. Strauss, Masahiro Suzuki 

Publication date: 24 March 2020

Abstract: We consider the steady states of a gas between two parallel plates that is ionized by a strong electric field so as to create a plasma. There can be a cascade of electrons due both to the electrons colliding with the gas molecules and to the ions colliding with the cathode (secondary emission). We use global bifurcation theory to prove that there is a one-parameter family $mathscrK$ of such steady states with the following property. The curve $mathscrK$ begins at the sparking voltage and either the particle density becomes unbounded or $mathscrK$ ends at an anti-sparking voltage. These critical voltages are characterized explicitly.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Attractors (35B41) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Boundary value problems for PDEs of mixed type (35M12) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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