| | Ionic diffusion through protein channels: From molecular description to continuum equations |
 | | Standard continuum formulations based on macroscopic conservation laws, such as the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, cannot obviously be assumed valid in narrow channels. |
 | | This leads to the more general coarse graining problem: The description of the diffusive motion of interacting particles in a confined region connected to a bath by averaged continuum equations. |
 | | In this paper we propose a mathematical averaging procedure that, starting from a Langevin model of ionic motion, yields effective continuum equations and boundary conditions. |
| www.nsti.org /Nanotech2003/showabstract.html?absno=373 (238 words) |