Behavior of charged particles in a DC low pressure glow discharge is studied.Theelectric properties of the glow discharge in argon,maintained by a constant source term with uniformelectron and ion generation,between two plane electrodes or by secondary electron emissionat the cathode,are determined.A fluid model is used to solve self-consistently the first threemoments of the Boltzmann equation coupled with the Poisson equation.The stationary spatialdistribution of the electron and ion densities,the electric potential,the electric field,and theelectron energy,in a two-dimensional (2D) configuration,are presented.
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