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The Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Bikermann (PNPB) model, in which the ions and water molecules are treated as different species with non-uniform sizes and valences with interstitial voids, can describe the steric and correlation effects in ionic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Jian-Guo Liu , Yijia Tang , Yu Zhao

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

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system is a standard model for describing ion transport. In many applications, e.g., ions in biological tissues, the presence of thin boundary layers poses both modelling and computational challenges. In a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Zilong Song , Xiulei Cao , Huaxiong Huang

In this paper, we propose and analyze a second order accurate (in both time and space) numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system, which describes the ion electro-diffusion in fluids. In particular, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yuzhe Qin , Cheng Wang

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

A modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck system in a bounded domain with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. It describes the concentrations of ions immersed in a polar solvent and the correlated electric potential due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Ansgar Jüngel , Annamaria Massimini

In this paper, we investigate the correlated diffusion of two ion species governed by a Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system. Here we further validate the numerical scheme recently proposed in \cite{astuto2025asymptotic}, where a time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Clarissa Astuto

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Ankur , Ram Jiwari , Satyvir Singh

In this paper we propose a computational framework for the investigation of the correlated motion between positive and negative ions exposed to the attraction of a bubble surface that mimics the (oscillating) cell membrane. The correlated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Antonio Raudino , Antonio Grassi , Giuseppe Lombardo , Giovanni Russo , Clarissa Astuto , Mario Corti

Ion transport through narrow channels is described by the coupled Poisson--Nernst--Planck--Stokes equations (PNPS) on a continuum scale. However, direct numerical simulations in two or three dimensions of boundary value problems for small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Christine Keller , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

A second order accurate (in time) numerical scheme is proposed and analyzed for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equation (PNP) system, reformulated as a non-constant mobility $H^{-1}$ gradient flow in the Energetic Variational Approach (EnVarA).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Chun Liu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , Xingye Yue , Shenggao Zhou

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 we propose and analyze a finite difference numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equation (PNP) system. To understand the energy structure of the PNP model, we make use of the Energetic Variational Approach (EnVarA),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Chun Liu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , Xingye Yue , Shenggao Zhou

The transport of charged particles, which can be described by the Maxwell-Ampere Nernst-Planck (MANP) framework, is essential in various applications including ion channels and semiconductors. We propose a decoupled structure-preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Yunzhuo Guo , Qian Yin , Zhengru Zhang

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) diffusional model for the immittance or impedance spectroscopy response of an electrolytic cell in a finite-length situation is extended to a general framework. In this new formalism, the bulk behavior of the…

We consider the Poisson-Nernst-Planck system which is well-accepted for describing dilute electrolytes as well as transport of charged species in homogeneous environments. Here, we study these equations in porous media whose electric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Markus Schmuck

Effects of the adsorption-desorption process on the immittance response of an electrolytic cell are theoretically investigated in the framework of the diffusional Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) continuum model, when the generation and…

A dynamic mass-transport method is proposed for approximately solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck(PNP) equations. The semi-discrete scheme based on the JKO type variational formulation naturally enforces solution positivity and the energy law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 H. Liu , W. Maimaitiyiming

Maxwell-Amp\`{e}re-Nernst-Planck (MANP) equations were recently proposed to model the dynamics of charged particles. In this study, we enhance a numerical algorithm of this system with deep learning tools. The proposed hybrid algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Cheng Chang , Zhouping Xin , Tieyong Zeng

In this research, we explore how permanent charges affect the movement of ionic currents through ion channels. We use a quasi-one-dimensional classical Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) model to study two types of ions, one positively charged and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Hamid Mofidi