A WASSERSTEIN GRADIENT FLOW APPROACH TO POISSON-NERNST-PLANCK EQUATIONS

作者:Kinderlehrer David; Monsaingeon Leonard; Xu Xiang*
来源:ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , 2017, 23(1): 137-164.
DOI:10.1051/cocv/2015043

摘要

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck system of equations used to model ionic transport is interpreted as a gradient flow for the Wasserstein distance and a free energy in the space of probability measures with finite second moment. A variational scheme is then set up and is the starting point of the construction of global weak solutions in a unified framework for the cases of both linear and non-linear diffusion. The proof of the main results relies on the derivation of additional estimates based on the flow interchange technique developed by Matthes et al. in [D. Matthes, R.J. McCann and G. Savare, Commun. Partial Differ. Equ. 34 (2009) 1352-1397].

  • 出版日期2017-3