English
Related papers

Related papers: A nonlinear equation for ionic diffusion in a stro…

200 papers

When B\"acklund transformations are applied repeatedly to any solution of the nonlinear equations describing electrodiffusion through a liquid junction separating two infinite well-stirred layers, they give rise to quantized ionic fluxes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 L. Bass , A. J. Bracken

We model the expansion of an interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a disordered lattice with a nonlinear diffusion equation normally used for a variety of classical systems. We find approximate solutions of the diffusion equation…

In this paper the distribution of charged particles is constructed under the approximation of ambipolar diffusion. The results of mathematical modelling in two-dimensional case taking into account the velocities of the system are presented.

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 P. Nefyodov , V. Reztsov , O. Riabinina

Electrical double layer (EDL) is formed when an electrode is in contact with an electrolyte solution, and is widely used in biophysics, electrochemistry, polymer solution and energy storage. Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) coupled equations provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Cherq Chua , Chun Yun Kee , L. K. Ang , Yee Sin Ang

We consider equilibrium statistical mechanics of a simplified model for the ideal conductor electrode in an interface contact with a classical semi-infinite electrolyte, modeled by the two-dimensional Coulomb gas of pointlike $\pm$ unit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Samaj , Z. Bajnok

We consider the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation in the context of electrostatic models for a biological macromolecule, embedded in a bounded domain containing a solution of an arbitrary number of ionic species which is not necessarily…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-26 José A. Iglesias , Svetoslav Nakov

We study the propogation and diffusion of electric charge fluctuations in high energy heavy ion collisions using the Cattaneo form for the dissipative part of the electric current. As opposed to the ordinary diffusion equation this form…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Joseph I. Kapusta , Christopher Plumberg

The Poisson-Boltzmann approach gives asymptotically exact counter-ion density profiles around charged objects in the weak-coupling limit of low valency and high temperature. In this paper we derive, using field-theoretic methods, a theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Andre G. Moreira , Roland R. Netz

A microemulsion of decane droplets stabilized by a non-ionic surfactant film is progressively charged by substitution of a non-ionic surfactant molecule by a cationic surfactant. We check that the microemulsion droplets remain identical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Jacqueline Appell , Grégoire Porte , Eric Buhler

We study the long-time asymptotics of prototypical non-linear diffusion equations. Specifically, we consider the case of a non-degenerate diffusivity function that is a (non-negative) polynomial of the dependent variable of the problem. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Ivan C. Christov , Akif Ibraguimov , Rahnuma Islam

The bulk nuclear matter produced in heavy ion collisions carries a multitude of conserved quantum numbers: electric charge, baryon number, and strangeness. Therefore, the diffusion processes associated to these conserved charges cannot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Jan A. Fotakis , Moritz Greif , Gabriel Denicol , Harri Niemi , Carsten Greiner

In this paper we extend the homogenization results obtained in (G. Allaire, A. Mikeli\'c, A. Piatnitski, J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010), 123103) for a system of partial differential equations describing the transport of a N-component electrolyte…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Andro Mikelic , Andrey Piatnitski

Using the very basic physics principles, we have studied the implications of quantum corrections to classical electrodynamics and the propagation of electromagnetic waves and pulses. The initial nonlinear wave equation for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Stephan I. Tzenov , Klaus M. Spohr , Kazuo A. Tanaka

All solids, whether crystalline or disordered, support elastic wave propagation with a linear dispersion relation in the long-wavelength limit. These waves, corresponding to low-frequency phonons, feature a vibrational density of states…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Edan Lerner , Eran Bouchbinder

Near-critical binary mixtures containing ionic solutes near a charged wall preferentially adsorbing one component of the solvent are studied. Within the Landau-Ginzburg approach extended to include electrostatic interactions and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alina Ciach , Anna Maciolek

This is an early but comprehensive review of the PNP Poisson Nernst Planck theory of ion channels. Extensive reference is made to the earlier literature. The starting place for this theory of open channels is a theory of electrodiffusion…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2010-09-16 Bob Eisenberg

We propose a modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) model to investigate charge transport in electrolytes of inhomogeneous dielectric environment. The model includes the ionic polarization due to the dielectric inhomogeneity and the ion-ion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhenli Xu , Manman Ma , Pei Liu

We introduce non-linear diffusion in a classical diffusion advection model with non local aggregative coupling on the circle, that exhibits a transition from an uncoherent state to a coherent one when the coupling strength is increased. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-03-01 Khashayar Pakdaman , Xavier Pellegrin

A nonlinear Poisson--Boltzmann equation with transmission boundary conditions at the interface between two materials is investigated. The model describes the electrostatic potential generated by a vector of ion concentrations in a periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Klemens Fellner , Victor Kovtunenko

The main goal of this work is to examine the qualitative effect of ion sizes via a steady-state boundary value problem. We study a one-dimensional version of a Poisson-Nernst-Planck system with a local hard-sphere potential model for ionic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Weishi Liu , Hamid Mofidi