Poisson–Nernst–Planck Systems for Ion Channels with Permanent Charges
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Poisson-Nernst-Planck Systems for Ion Channels with Permanent Charges
Ionic channels and semiconductor devices use atomic scale structures to control macroscopic flows from one reservoir to another. The onedimensional steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system is a useful representation of these devices but experience shows that describing the reservoirs as boundary conditions is difficult. We study the PNP system for two types of ions with three regions of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0036-1410,1095-7154
DOI: 10.1137/060657480