Solutions to a reduced Poisson-Nernst-Planck system and determination of reaction rates

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1329-1345

  Li, Bo ^a   Lu, Benzhuo ^b   Wang, Zhongming ^a,c   McCammon, J Andrew ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING COMPUTING   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann distributions; Electro diffusion; Ionic concentrations; Iteration method; Reaction rates; Semi analytical solution; The Debye H ckel approximation; The Poisson Nernst Planck system

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; IONIC STRENGTH; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REACTION RATES;

BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; IONIC CONCENTRATIONS; ITERATION METHOD; POISSON NERNST PLANCK SYSTEMS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTION;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 73449123428     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.12.024     Document Type: Article

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