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The first-order linear positivity preserving schemes in time are available for the time dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, second-order linear ones are still challenging. In this paper, we propose the first- and second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Jiayin Li , Jingwei Li

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 this…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Zilong Song , Xiulei Cao , Huaxiong Huang

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

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

In this paper, we construct a semi-implicit finite difference method for the time dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck system. Although the Poisson-Nernst-Planck system is a nonlinear system, the numerical method presented in this paper only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Dongdong He , Kejia Pan

We present a novel class of high-order space-time finite element schemes for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations. We prove that our schemes are mass conservative, positivity preserving, and unconditionally energy stable for any order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Guosheng Fu , Zhiliang Xu

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

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

This paper develops a family of fast, structure-preserving numerical algorithms for the nonlinear Maxwell-Ampere Nernst-Planck equations. For the first-order scheme, the Slotboom transformation rewrites the Nernst-Planck equation to enable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Haoran Sun , Wancheng Wu , Kun Wang

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations are one of the most effective model for describing electrostatic interactions and diffusion processes in ion solution systems, and have been widely used in the numerical simulations of biological…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Yang Liu , Shi Shu , Ying Yang

In this paper, to study ionic steric effects, we present a linear, decoupled, second-order accurate in time and structure-preserving scheme with finite element approximations for Carreau fluid equations coupled with steric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Wenxing Zhu , Mingyang Pan , Dongdong He

We propose in this paper efficient first/second-order time-stepping schemes for the evolutional Navier-Stokes-Nernst-Planck-Poisson equations. The proposed schemes are constructed using an auxiliary variable reformulation and sophisticated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Xiaolan Zhou , Chuanju Xu

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

Small-scale plasticity problems are often characterised by different patterning behaviours ranging from macroscopic down to the atomistic scale. In successful models of such complex behaviour, its origin lies within non-convexity of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 F. Bormann , R. H. J. Peerlings , M. G. D. Geers

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

Charge dynamics play essential role in many practical applications such as semiconductors, electrochemical devices and transmembrane ion channels. A Maxwell-Amp\`{e}re Nernst-Planck (MANP) model that describes charge dynamics via…

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

In this work, we develop novel structure-preserving numerical schemes for a class of nonlinear Fokker--Planck equations with nonlocal interactions. Such equations can cover many cases of importance, such as porous medium equations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Chenghua Duan , Wenbin Chen , Chun Liu , 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

We develop a structure-preserving numerical discretization for the electrostatic Euler-Poisson equations with a constant magnetic field. The scheme preserves positivity of the density, positivity of the internal energy and a minimum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jordan Hoffart , Matthias Maier , John N. Shadid , Ignacio Tomas

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