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Existence theory for a Poisson-Nernst-Planck model of electrophoresis

Analysis of PDEs 2014-02-20 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A system modeling the electrophoretic motion of a charged rigid macromolecule immersed in a incompressible ionized fluid is considered. The ionic concentration is governing by the Nernst-Planck equation coupled with the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential, Navier-Stokes and Newtonian equations for the fluid and the macromolecule dynamics, respectively. A local in time existence result for suitable weak solutions is established, following the approach of Desjardins and Esteban [Comm. Partial Diff. Eq., 25 (2000), 1399--1414].

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@article{arxiv.1102.5370,
  title  = {Existence theory for a Poisson-Nernst-Planck model of electrophoresis},
  author = {Luciano Bedin and Mark Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.5370},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors due to several misprints. A corrected and full version was published in Comm. Pure Appl. Anal. 12(1), 157-206, (2013)