An Adaptive Conservative Finite Volume Method for Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations on a Moving Mesh

An Adaptive Conservative Finite Volume Method for Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations on a Moving Mesh

Year:    2019

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 26 (2019), Iss. 2 : pp. 389–412

Abstract

In this paper, we present a finite volume method for solving Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations in one spatial dimension. To reduce computational cost, an adaptive moving mesh strategy is employed in order to resolve thin Debye layers near the boundary. In addition to the standard monitor functions, we propose two new ones for the moving mesh partial differential equations to improve the accuracy of the numerical solution. The method guarantees the strict mass conservation. We have proved that the scheme maintains positivity on the adaptive moving mesh which has not been done for PNP.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0134

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 26 (2019), Iss. 2 : pp. 389–412

Published online:    2019-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    24

Keywords:    Poisson-Nernst-Planck finite volume method adaptive moving mesh mass conservation.