Near- and far-field expansions for stationary solutions of Poisson--Nernst--Planck equations
arXiv:2105.06626 · doi:10.1002/mma.7453
Abstract
This work is concerned with the stationary Poisson--Nernst--Planck equation with a large parameter which describes a huge number of ions occupying an electrolytic region. Firstly, we focus on the model with a single specie of positive charges in one-dimensional bounded domains due to the assumption that these ions are transported in the same direction along a tubular-like mircodomain. We show that the solution asymptotically blows up in a thin region attached to the boundary, and establish the refined "near-field" and "far-field" expansions for the solutions with respect to the parameter. Moreover, we obtain the boundary concentration phenomenon of the net charge density, which mathematically confirms the physical description that the non-neutral phenomenon occurs near the charged surface. In addition, we revisit a nonlocal Poisson--Boltzmann model for monovalent binary ions and establish a novel comparison for these two models.
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