Existence and global bounds for a fluid model of plasma display technology

Abstract

This article considers the fluid model for the discharge of plasma particle species in display technology. The fluid equations are coupled with Poisson's equation, which describes the effect of the charged particles on the electric field. The diffusion and mobility coefficients for the positive ion particles depend on the electric field, while those for the electrons depend on the electron mean energy. The reaction rates are proportional to the products of the densities of the reacting particles involved in the particular ionization, conversion or recombination reactions. Moreover, the ionization coefficients are dependent on the electric field, which varies spatially and temporally. The main ionization and discharge reactions are described by an initial-boundary value problem for a system of coupled parabolic-elliptic partial differential equations. The system is first analyzed by upper-lower solution method. By means of the a priori bounds obtained for an arbitrary time, the existence of solution for the initial-boundary value problem is proved in an appropriate Hölder space.  2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.