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The description of electron-electron interactions in transport problems is both analytically and numerically difficult. Here we show that a much simpler description of electron transport in the presence of interactions can be achieved in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto D'Agosta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

This paper outlines an energy-minimization finite-element approach to the modeling of equilibrium configurations for nematic liquid crystals in the presence of internal and external electric fields. The method targets minimization of system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 J. H. Adler , T. J. Atherton , T. R. Benson , D. B. Emerson , S. P. MacLachlan

In contrast to the commonly used lattice Boltzmann method, off-lattice Boltzmann methods decouple the velocity discretization from the underlying spatial grid, thus allowing for more efficient geometric representations of complex…

Currently existing energy-stable parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion flow and other flows are usually limited to first-order accuracy in time. Designing a high-order algorithm for geometric flows that can also be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Meng Li , Yihang Guo , Jingjiang Bi

We propose high-order well-balanced finite-volume schemes for a broad class of hydrodynamic systems with attractive-repulsive interaction forces and linear and nonlinear damping. Our schemes are suitable for free energies containing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-20 José A. Carrillo , Manuel J. Castro , Serafim Kalliadasis , Sergio P. Perez

Despite its numerical challenges, finite element method is used to compute viscous fluid flow. A consensus on the cause of numerical problems has been reached; however, general algorithms---allowing a robust and accurate simulation for any…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Bilen Emek Abali

We study a system of nonlinear partial differential equations modeling the electrokinetics of a nematic electrolyte material consisting of various ion species suspended in a nematic liquid crystal within a bounded domain in two or three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hengrong Du , Fizay-Noah Lee , Gieri Simonett

We consider a coupled system of Navier-Stokes and Nernst-Planck equations, describing the evolution of the velocity and the concentration fields of dissolved constituents in an electrolyte solution. Motivated by recent applications in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Dieter Bothe , André Fischer , Jürgen Saal

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

We introduce a theoretical and numerical method to investigate the properties of electro-osmotic flows under conditions of extreme confinement. The present approach, aiming to provide a simple modeling of electrolyte solutions described as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Simone Melchionna , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We consider a system of nonlinear partial differential equations modelling the steady motion of an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid, which is chemically reacting. The governing system consists of a steady convection-diffusion equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Seungchan Ko , Petra Pustejovská , Endre Süli

By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Xianmin Xu

Electrokinetic transport phenomena can strongly influence the behaviour of macromolecules and colloidal particles in solution, with applications in, e.g., DNA translocation through nanopores, electro-osmotic flow in nanocapillaries, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Georg Rempfer , Gary B. Davies , Christian Holm , Joost de Graaf

The quasi-neutral hybrid model with kinetic ions and fluid electrons is a promising approach for bridging the inherent multi-scale nature of many problems in space and laboratory plasmas. Here, a novel, implicit, particle-in-cell based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Stanier , L. Chacón , G. Chen

We present a multiscale simulation framework that couples the Finite Element Method with molecular dynamics. Bypassing traditional equations of state (EOS) by using in-line atomistic simulations, the method offers the advantage of…

In this article we develop an algorithm for the efficient simulation of electrolytes in the presence of physical boundaries. In previous work the Discrete Ion Stochastic Continuum Overdamped Solvent (DISCOS) algorithm was derived for triply…

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaorong Wang , Xiaodi Zhang

In this paper, we follow the general idea of the Onsager--Wilson theory of strong binary electrolyte solutions and completely calculate the velocity profile of ionic flow by first formally solving the hydrodynamic (Stokes) equation for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Byung Chan Eu , Kyunil Rah

We formulate the continuum field equations and constitutive equations that govern deformation, stress, and electric current flow in a Li-ion half-cell. The model considers mass transport through the system, deformation and stress in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-01 Allan F. Bower , Pradeep R. Guduru , Vijay A. Sethuraman

In this paper, we are interested in the dynamics of charged particles interacting with the incompressible viscous flow. More precisely, we consider the Vlasov-Poisson or Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck equation coupled with the incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung