English

Long time dynamics of the Nernst-Planck-Darcy System on $\mathbb{R}^3$

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-06 v1

Abstract

We study ionic electrodiffusion modeled by the Nernst--Planck equations describing the evolution of NN ionic species in a three-dimensional incompressible fluid flowing through a porous medium. We address the long-time dynamics of the resulting system in the three-dimensional whole space R3\mathbb{R}^3. We prove that the kk-th spatial derivatives of each ionic concentration decays to zero in L2L^2 with a sharp rate of order t34k2t^{-\frac{3}{4}-\frac{k}{2}}. Moreover, we investigate the behavior of the relative entropy associated with the model and show that it blows up in time with a sharp growth rate of order logt\log t.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.02208,
  title  = {Long time dynamics of the Nernst-Planck-Darcy System on $\mathbb{R}^3$},
  author = {Elie Abdo and Joe Germany and Mohammad Khalil Hamdan and Kifah Kontar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02208},
  year   = {2026}
}