We are concerned with the study of the diffusion and homogenization approximation of the Boltzmann-Poisson system in presence of a spatially oscillating electrostatic potential. By analyzing the relative entropy, we prove uniform energy estimate for well prepared boundary data. An averaging lemma and two scale convergence techniques are used to prove rigorously the convergence of the scaled Bol...

We consider the design of an effective and reliable adaptive finite element method (AFEM) for the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE). We first examine the two-term regularization technique for the continuous problem recently proposed by Chen, Holst, and Xu based on the removal of the singular electrostatic potential inside biomolecules; this technique made possible the development of th...

We consider the flow of a dilute gas around a macroscopic heavy object. The state of the gas is described by an extended Boltzmann equation where the interactions between the gas molecules and the object are taken into account in computing the rate of change of the distribution function of the gas. We then show that the extended Boltzmann is equivalent to the usual Boltzmann equation, supplemen...

Effective Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations are derived for macroscopic ion transport in charged porous media. Homogenization analysis is performed for a two-component periodic composite consisting of a dilute electrolyte continuum (described by standard PNP equations) and a continuous dielectric matrix, which is impermeable to the ions and carries a given surface charge. Three new features...

The double bracket dissipation approach is applied to the Vlasov kinetic equation. The Vlasov equation is then transformed by a Poisson map to moment dynamics, leading to a nonlocal form of Darcy’s law. Next, kinetic equations for particles with anisotropic interaction are considered and also cast into the double bracket dissipation form. The moment dynamics for these double bracket kinetic equ...

Measurements of shear Alfvén waves are used to test the predictions of a variety of different electron collision operators, including several Krook collision operators as well as a Lorentz collision operator. New expressions for the collisional warm-plasma dielectric tensor resulting from the use of the fully-magnetized collisional Boltzmann equation are presented here. Theoretical predictions ...

We investigate numerical solution schemes for the semiconductor Boltzmann transport equation using an expansion of the distribution function in spherical harmonics. A complexity analysis shows that traditional implementations using higher-order expansions suffer from huge memory requirements, especially for twoand three-dimensional devices. To overcome these complexity limitations, a compressed...

The coalgebra approach to the construction of classical integrable systems from Poisson coalgebras is reviewed, and the essential role played by symplectic realizations in this framework is emphasized. Many examples of Hamiltonians with either undeformed or q-deformed coalgebra symmetry are given, and their Liouville superintegrability is discussed. Among them, (quasi-maximally) superintegrable...

We construct explicitly a bridge process whose distribution, in its own filtration, is the same as the difference of two independent Poisson processes with the same intensity and its time 1 value satisfies a specific constraint. This construction allows us to show the existence of Glosten-Milgrom equilibrium and its associated optimal trading strategy for the insider. In the equilibrium the ins...

We define a family of SLE-type processes in finitely connected domains, which are called continuous LERW (loop-erased random walk). A continuous LERW describes a random curve in a finitely connected domain that starts from a prime end and ends at a certain target set, which could be an interior point, or a prime end, or a side arc. It is defined using the usual chordal Loewner equation with the...