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We consider the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in a periodic cell, representative of a porous medium. It is a model for the electrostatic distribution of $N$ chemical species diluted in a liquid at rest, occupying the pore space with charged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Gregoire Allaire , Jean-Francois Dufreche , Andro Mikelic , Andrey Piatnitski

This work proposes a fast iterative method for local steric Poisson--Boltzmann (PB) theories, in which the electrostatic potential is governed by the Poisson's equation and ionic concentrations satisfy equilibrium conditions. To present the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Minhong Chen , Wei Dou , Shenggao Zhou

The problem of the one dimensional electro-diffusion of ions in a strong binary electrolyte is considered. In such a system the solute dissociates completely into two species of ions with unlike charges. The mathematical description…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Sandip Ghosal , Zhen Chen

The non-equilibrium steady states of a semi-infinite quasi-one-dimensional univalent binary electrolyte solution, characterised by non-vanishing electric currents, are investigated by means of Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) theory. Exact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-09 Markus Bier

We present and analyze two stabilized finite element methods for solving numerically the Poisson--Nernst--Planck equations. The stabilization we consider is carried out by using a shock detector and a discrete graph Laplacian operator for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jesús Bonilla , Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu

We solve the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation for two parallel and likely charged plates both inside a symmetric elecrolyte, and inside a 2 : 1 asymmetric electrolyte, in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions. From these solutions we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiangjun Xing

The general solution to the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation for two parallel charged plates, either inside a symmetric elecrolyte, or inside a 2q:-q asymmetric electrolyte, is found in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions. From this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Xiangjun Xing

In this paper we propose a nonlinear elasticity model of macromolecular conformational change (deformation) induced by electrostatic forces generated by an implicit solvation model. The Poisson-Boltzmann equation for the electrostatic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Yongcheng Zhou , Michael Holst , James Andrew McCammon

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

In this work, we study the well-posedness of a system of partial differential equations that model the dynamics of a two-dimensional Stokes bubble immersed in two-dimensional ambient Stokes fluid of the same viscosity that extends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Jae Ho Choi

We show the existence of smooth stationary solutions for the inelastic Boltzmann equation under the thermalization induced by a host-medium with a fixed distribution. This is achieved by controlling the Lp-norms, the moments and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Marzia Bisi , Jose A. Carrillo , Bertrand Lods

The behavior of electrolyte solutions close to a charged surface is studied theoretically. A modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation which takes into account the volume excluded by the ions in addition to the electrostatic interactions is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Borukhov , D. Andelman , H. Orland

The Poisson Boltzmann equation is known for its success in describing the Debye layer that arises from the charge separation phenomenon at the silica/water interface. However, by treating only the mobile ionic charges in the liquid, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-30 Maijia Liao , Li Wan , Shixin Xu , Chun Liu , Ping Sheng

The Debye-H\"uckel equation is a fundamental physical model in chemical thermodynamics that describes the free energy (chemical potential, activity) of an ion in electrolyte solutions at variable salt concentration, temperature, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Chin-Lung Li , Jinn-Liang Liu

A full viscous quantum hydrodynamic system for particle density, current density, energy density and electrostatic potential coupled with a Poisson equation in one dimensional bounded intervals is studied. First, the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Xiaoying Han , Yuming Qin , Wenlong Sun

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 present an extension to the Poisson-Boltzmann model where the dipolar features of solvent molecules are taken explicitly into account. The formulation is derived at mean-field level and can be extended to any order in a systematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-31 Ariel Abrashkin , David Andelman , Henri Orland

We study a model Coulomb fluid consisting of dipolar solvent molecules of finite extent generalizing the point-like Dipolar Poisson-Boltzmann model (DPB) previously introduced by Coalson and Duncan (J. Phys. Chem 100, 2612 (1996)) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-18 Sahin Buyukdagli , Ralf Blossey

The nonlinear Dirac equation for Bose-Einstein condensates in honeycomb optical lattices gives rise to relativistic multi-component bright and dark soliton solutions. Using the relativistic linear stability equations, the relativistic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-30 L. H. Haddad , Lincoln D. Carr

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