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We present a robust scheme for solving the electrokinetic equations. This goal is achieved by combining the lattice-Boltzmann method (LB) with a discrete solution of the convection-diffusion equation for the different charged and neutral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabrizio Capuani , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Daan Frenkel

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Luciano Bedin , Mark Thompson

In this paper within a field-theoretical approach taking into account explicitly a co-solvent with a nonzero dipole and a polarizability tensor, we derive a modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Applying the modified Poisson-Boltzmann…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-02 Y. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , M. G. Kiselev

The effective electrostatic interaction between a pair of colloids, both of them located close to each other at an electrolyte interface, is studied by employing the full, nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory within classical density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-17 Arghya Majee , Markus Bier , S. Dietrich

Consider the steady Boltzmann equation with slab symmetry for a monatomic, hard sphere gas in a half space. At the boundary of the half space, it is assumed that the gas is in contact with its condensed phase. The present paper discusses…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Niclas Bernhoff , François Golse

Electrokinetic phenomena in nanopore sensors and microfluidic devices require accurate simulation of coupled fluid-electrostatic interactions in geometrically complex domains with irregular boundaries and adaptive mesh refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Sudheer Mishra , Sundararajan Natarajan , E. Natarajan , Gianmarco Manzini

Within a dipolar Poisson-Boltzmann theory including electrostatic correlations, we consider the effect of explicit solvent structure on solvent and ion partition confined to charged nanopores. We develop a relaxation scheme for the solution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Sahin Buyukdagli

The linearized Boltzmann equation is considered to describe small spatial perturbations of the homogeneous cooling state. The corresponding macroscopic balance equations for the density, temperature, and flow velocity are derived from it as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Javier Brey , James W. Dufty , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We present an analysis of the stability, energy and torque properties of a model Bursian diode in a one dimensional Eulerian framework using the cold Euler-Poisson fluid equations. In regions of parameter space where there are two sets of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 M. S. Rosin , H. Sun

We propose a new second-order accurate lattice Boltzmann scheme that solves the quasi-static equations of linear elasticity in two dimensions. In contrast to previous works, our formulation solves for a single distribution function with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Oliver Boolakee , Martin Geier , Laura De Lorenzis

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is widely used to model molecular electrostatics; however, it is usually solved in linearised form because the sinh nonlinearity is challenging, limiting its applicability in highly charged systems such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Mauricio Guerrero-Montero , Michal Bosy , Christopher D. Cooper

The self-consistent quantum-electrostatic (also known as Poisson-Schr\"odinger) problem is notoriously difficult in situations where the density of states varies rapidly with energy. At low temperatures, these fluctuations make the problem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 P. Armagnat , A. Lacerda-Santos , B. Rossignol , C. Groth , X. Waintal

A finite element discretization using a method of lines approached is proposed for approximately solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations. This discretization scheme enforces positivity of the computed solutions, corresponding to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Chun Liu , Maximilian Metti , Jinchao Xu

This work proposes a new stabilized $P_1\times P_0$ finite element method for solving the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. The numerical scheme is based on a reduced Bernardi--Raugel element with statically condensed face bubbles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Yuwen Li , Ludmil Zikatanov

In this work, we numerically study linear stability of multiple steady-state solutions to a type of steric Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions, which are applicable to ion channels. With numerically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jie Ding , Hui Sun , Shenggao Zhou

A semi-classical approach to the study of the evolution of anyonic excitations--elementary particles with fractional statistics, complementing bosons and fermions--is through the Boltzmann equation for anyons. This work reviews a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Niclas Bernhoff

We show existence of solutions for the equations of static atomistic nonlinear elasticity theory on a bounded domain with prescribed boundary values. We also show their convergence to the solutions of continuum nonlinear elasticity theory,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Julian Braun , Bernd Schmidt

In this paper, we prove the existence and stability of subsonic flows for steady full Euler-Poisson system in a two dimensional nozzle of finite length when imposing the electric potential difference on non-insulated boundary from a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-16 Myoungjean Bae , Ben Duan , Chunjing Xie

The behavior of a non-conductive quasi-planar lipid membrane in an electrolyte and in a static (DC) electric field is investigated theoretically in the nonlinear (Poisson-Boltzmann) regime. Electrostatic effects due to charges in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Falko Ziebert , David Lacoste

We describe a method to simulate the dynamics of charged colloidal particles suspended in a liquid containing dissociated ions and salt ions. Regimes of prime current interest are those of large volume fraction of colloids, highly charged…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-01-28 J. Dobnikar , D. Haložan , M. Brumen , H. -H. von Grünberg , R. Rzehak