A mathematical model for the hard sphere repulsion in ionic solutions

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 459-475

  Hyont, Yunkyong ^a   Eisenberg, Bob ^b   Liu, Chun ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetic variational approach; Finite size effects; Hard sphere; Hard sphere potential in density functional theory; Lennard Jones repulsive potential; Poisson Nernst Planck equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650453249     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/cms.2011.v9.n2.a5     Document Type: Article

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