Special Session 114: 

Poisson-Nernst-Planck Models with Singular Permanent Charges

Chia-Yu Hsieh
National Center for Theoretical Sciences
Taiwan
Co-Author(s):    Yong Yu
Abstract:
The Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system is widely used to model charge transport in many physical and biological problems, for example, semiconductors and ion channels. In this talk, we will introduce a PNP system with singular permanent charges. When the permanent charge distribution is an ensemble of point charges in the domain, we transform the original system into a parabolic-elliptic system with weights. We will show the well-posedness of the system in some weighted Sobolev spaces.