Variational multiscale models for charge transport

SIAM Review

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 699-754

  Wei, Guo Wei ^a   Zheng, Qiong ^b   Chen, Zhan ^b,c   Xia, Kelin ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic devices; Fuel cells; Ion channels; Laplace Beltrami equation; Nanofluidics; Navier Stokes equation; Nernst Planck equation; Poisson Boltzmann equation; Variational multiscale models

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ION CHANNEL; LAPLACE-BELTRAMI EQUATION; NERNST-PLANCK EQUATIONS; POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; VARIATIONAL MULTISCALE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CELL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EULER EQUATIONS; FREE ENERGY; FUEL CELLS; IONS; LAPLACE EQUATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NANOFLUIDICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VISCOUS FLOW;

MODELS;

EID: 84869071938     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110845690     Document Type: Review

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