A multigrid method for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 4031-4039

  Mathur, Sanjay R ^a   Murthy, Jayathi Y ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational method; Finite volume; Ion channel; Multigrid; Poisson Nernst Planck equations

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRID METHODS; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; CONVERGENCE RATES; DRIFT TERM; DRIVING VOLTAGES; FINITE VOLUME; GAUSS-SEIDEL; ION CHANNEL; ION CONCENTRATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; MULTIGRID; MULTIGRID METHODS; NEWTON-RAPHSON LINEARIZATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POISSON-NERNST-PLANCK EQUATIONS; RELAXATION METHODS; SPACE CHARGES; SYNTHETIC ION CHANNELS; UNSTRUCTURED CELL;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 67049160490     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.03.040     Document Type: Article

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