Jean Dolbeault, Peter A. Markowich, Andreas Unterreiter

• Mean field equations arise as steady state versions of convection-diffusion systems where the convective field is determined as solution of a Poisson equation whose right hand side is affine in the solutions of the convection-diffusion equations. In this paper we consider the repulsive coupling case for a system of 2 convection-diffusion equations. For general diffusivities we prove the existence of a unique solution of the mean field equation by a variational technique. Also we analyse the small-Debye-length limit and prove convergence to either the so-called charge-neutral case or to a double obstacle problem for the limiting potential depending on the data.