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In traditional hydrodynamic theories for ionic fluids, conservation of the mass and linear momentum is not properly taken care of. In this paper, we develop hydrodynamic theories for a viscous, ionic fluid of $N$ ionic species enforcing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-08 Xiaogang Yang , Yuezheng Gong , Jun Li , Robert S. Eisenberg , Qi Wang

We rigorously derive a homogenized model for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations for the case of multiple species defined on a periodic porous medium in spatial dimensions two and three. This extends the previous homogenization…

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Parameterization (closure) schemes in numerical weather and climate prediction models account for the effects of physical processes that cannot be resolved explicitly by these models. Methods for finding physical parameterization schemes…

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A pore network modeling (PNM) framework for the simulation of transport of charged species, such as ions, in porous media is presented. It includes the Nernst-Planck (NP) equations for each charged species in the electrolytic solution in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mehrez Agnaou , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Thomas George Tranter , Jeff Gostick

We discuss algorithms applicable to the numerical solution of second-order ordinary differential equations by finite-differences. We make particular reference to the solution of the dissipative particle dynamics fluid model, and present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Keir E. Novik , Peter V. Coveney

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear and nonlocal parabolic model for multi-species ionic fluids and introduce a semi-implicit finite volume scheme, which is second order accurate in space, first order in time and satisfies the following…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Yong Zhang , Yu Zhao , Zhennan Zhou

In this article, we propose and analyze a fully coupled, nonlinear, and energy-stable virtual element method (VEM) for solving the coupled Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) and Navier--Stokes (NS) equations modeling microfluidic and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Mehdi Dehghan , Zeinab Gharibi , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this article we address the study of ion charge transport in the biological channels separating the intra and extracellular regions of a cell. The focus of the investigation is devoted to including thermal driving forces in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Riccardo Sacco , Fabio Manganini , Joseph W. Jerome

Numerical methods are proposed for an advanced Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Fermi (PNPF) model for studying ion transport through biological ion channels. PNPF contains many more correlations than most models and simulations of channels, because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-22 Jinn-Liang Liu , Bob Eisenberg

We consider in this paper random batch interacting particle methods for solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, and thus the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation as the equilibrium, in the external unbounded domain. To justify the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu , Yijia Tang

This work considers charged systems described by the modified Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations, which incorporate ionic steric effects and the Born solvation energy for dielectric inhomogeneity. Solving the steady-state modified PNP…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Zhonghua Qiao , Zhenli Xu , Qian Yin , Shenggao Zhou

In this paper, uniformly unconditionally stable first and second order finite difference schemes are developed for kinetic transport equations in the diffusive scaling. We first derive an approximate evolution equation for the macroscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Guoliang Zhang , Hongqiang Zhu , Tao Xiong

We consider numerical methods for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Cahn-Hilliard (PNPCH) equations with steric interactions. We propose a novel energy stable numerical scheme that respects mass conservation and positivity at the discrete level.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Yiran Qian , Cheng Wang , Shenggao Zhou

This work presents a finite element method for a modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck/Navier-Stokes (PNP/NS) model under the mechanical equilibrium, developed for compressible electrolytes. Another key contribution of this work is the reduction…

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The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations with generalized Frumkin-Butler-Volmer boundary conditions (PNP-FBV) describe ion transport with Faradaic reactions and have applications in a wide variety of fields. Using an adaptive time-stepper based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 M. C. Pugh , D. Yan , F. P. Dawson

In this work, we introduce an inverse averaging finite element method (IAFEM) for solving the size-modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck (SMPNP) equations. Comparing with the classical Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, the SMPNP equations add…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Ruigang Shen , Qianru Zhang , ang Benzhuo Lu

Ion flow in charged nanopores is strongly influenced by the ratio of the Debye length to the pore radius. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system in narrow pore like geometries and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-10 B. Matejczyk , J. -F. Pietschmann , G. Richardson , M. -T. Wolfram

The compact finite difference method is a powerful tool for discretizing conservation laws, owing to its inherent flexibility in developing high-resolution and highly stable schemes. In this paper, we propose a framework for the design of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Weifeng Hou , Zhangpeng Sun , Wenqi Yao , Liupeng Wang

A structure-preserving implicit Euler finite-element scheme for a degenerate cross-diffusion system for ion transport is analyzed. The scheme preserves the nonnegativity and upper bounds of the ion concentrations, the total relative mass,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Anita Gerstenmayer , Ansgar Jüngel

We present an efficient second-order finite difference scheme for solving the 2D sine-Gordon equation, which can inherit the discrete energy conservation for the undamped model theoretically. Due to the semi-implicit treatment for the…

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