Streamers in Gas Discharge Devices
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Streamers are ionization waves in gas discharge devices, modelled here as travelling wave solutions of a drift-diiusion model for the transport of electrons and ions. The existence of a certain type of small amplitude streamers is proved by applying results from the theory of singularly perturbed ordinary diierential equations. Global information is obtained from a large activation energy analysis. Aktivierungsenergie.
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