[PAST EVENT] Mathematics Colloquium and EXTREEMS-QED Lecture: Xiang Xu (Old Dominion University)

November 20, 2015
2pm - 3pm
Location
Jones Hall, Room 301
200 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Abstract:
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 nonlinear diffusion. The proof of the main results relies on the derivation of additional estimates based on the recently developed flow interchange techniques.
Contact

Junping Shi