Analytical Approaches to Charge Transport in a Moving Medium
By: Joseph W. Jerome
We consider electrodiffusion in an
incompressible electrolyte medium which is in motion. The
Cauchy problem is governed by a coupled
Navier-Stokes/Poisson-Nernst-Planck system. We prove the existence of a
unique smooth local solution for smooth initial data, with nonnegativity
preserved
for the ion concentrations.
We make use of semigroup ideas, originally introduced by T.~Kato in the 1970s
for quasi-linear hyperbolic systems. The time interval is invariant under
the inviscid limit to the
Euler/Poisson-Nernst-Planck system.
This paper will appear in Transport Theory and Statistical Physics 31
(2002), pp. 333--366. It
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