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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 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

A model of a finite cylindrical ion channel through a phospholipid membrane of width $L$ separating two electrolyte reservoirs is studied. Analytical solution of the Poisson equation is obtained for an arbitrary distribution of ions inside…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Yan Levin

Recently, energetic variational approach was employed to derive models for non-isothermal electrokinetics by Liu et. al \cite{Liu-Wu-Liu-CMS2018}. In particular, the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Fourier (PNPF) system for the dynamics of $N$-ionic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Xu Zhang

The interaction between charged bodies in an ionic solution is a general problem in colloid physics and becomes a central topic in the study of biological systems where the electrostatic interaction between proteins, nucleic acids,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Fabien Paillusson , Maria Barbi , Jean-Marc Victor

The Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system models electrodiffusion of ions in a fluid. We prove global existence of solutions in bounded domains in three dimensions with either blocking (no-flux) or uniform selective (special Dirichlet)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Peter Constantin , Mihaela Ignatova , Fizay-Noah Lee

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 investigate a Poisson-Nernst-Planck type system in three spatial dimensions where the strength of the electric drift depends on a possibly small parameter and the particles are assumed to diffuse quadratically. On grounds of the global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Jonathan Zinsl

Starting with a microscopic (individual-based) Brownian dynamics model of charged particles (ions), its macroscopic description is derived as a system of partial differential equations that govern the evolution of ion concentrations in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Jinyuan Zhang , Radek Erban

We describe kinetic simulations of transient problems in partially ionized weakly-collisional plasma around spherical bodies absorbing or emitting charged particles. Numerical solutions of kinetic equations for electrons and ions in 1D2V…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 V I Kolobov , R R Arslanbekov , H Liang

The reduced 1D Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) model of artificial nanopores in the presence of a permanent charge on the channel wall is studied. More specifically, we consider the limit where the channel length exceed much the Debye screening…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-11-23 I. D. Kosińska , I. Goychuk , M. Kostur , G. Schmid , P. Hänggi

The Nernst-Planck-Stokes (NPS) system models electroconvection of ions in a fluid. We consider the system, for two oppositely charged ionic species, on three dimensional bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions for the ionic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Fizay-Noah Lee

Neutral fermions of spin $\frac 12$ with magnetic moment can interact with electromagnetic fields through nonminimal coupling. The Dirac--Pauli equation for such a fermion coupled to a spherically symmetric or central electric field can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Qiong-gui Lin

This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem on the full Euler-Poisson system for ions over a half line. We establish the existence of stationary solutions under the Bohm criterion similar to the isentropic case and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Renjun Duan , Haiyan Yin , Changjiang Zhu

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

The adsorption of large ions from solution to a charged surface is investigated theoretically. A generalized Poisson--Boltzmann equation, which takes into account the finite size of the ions is presented. We obtain analytical expressions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Borukhov , D. Andelman , H. Orland

With already demonstrated in previous work the equations that describe the space dependence of the electric potential are determined by the solution of the equation of Poisson-Boltzmann. In this work we consider these solutions for the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-09-30 M. A. G. Soares , F. A. O. Cruz , C. M. Cortez

We review some properties of the stationary states of the Fokker - Planck equation for N interacting particles within a mean field approximation, which yields a non-linear integrodifferential equation for the particle density. Analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Martzel , C. Aslangul

The Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations have been widely applied to describe ionic transport in ion channels, nanofluidic devices, and many electrochemical systems. Despite their wide applications, the PNP equations fail in predicting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-03 Farjana Siddiqua , Zhongming Wang , Shenggao Zhou

Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations are widely used to describe the electrodiffusion of ions in a solvated biomolecular system. Two kinds of two-grid finite element algorithms are proposed to decouple the steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Ying Yang , Benzhuo Lu , Yan Xie