Transport of solvated ions in nanopores: Asymptotic models and numerical study

Improved Poisson--Nernst--Planck systems taking into account finite ion size and solvation effects provide a more accurate model of electric double layers compared to the classical setting. We introduce and discuss several variants of such improved models. %Based on spatially fully resolved numerical models We study the effect of improved modeling in large aspect ratio nanopores. Moreover, we derive approximate asymptotic models for the improved Poisson--Nernst--Planck systems which can be reduced to one-dimensional systems. In a numerical study, we compare simulation results obtained from solution of the asymptotic 1D-models with those obtained by discretization of the full resolution models