Asymptotic analysis of the narrow escape problem in dendritic spine shaped domain: Three dimensions

Xiaofei Li*, Hyundae Lee, Yuliang Wang

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Abstract

This paper deals with the three-dimensional narrow escape problem in a dendritic spine shaped domain, which is composed of a relatively big head and a thin neck. The narrow escape problem is to compute the mean first passage time of Brownian particles traveling from inside the head to the end of the neck. The original model is to solve a mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary value problem for the Poisson equation in the composite domain, and is computationally challenging. In this paper we seek to transfer the original problem to a mixed Robin-Neumann boundary value problem by dropping the thin neck part, and rigorously derive the asymptotic expansion of the mean first passage time with high order terms. This study is a nontrivial three-dimensional generalization of the work in Li (2014 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47 505202), where a two-dimensional analogue domain is considered.

Original languageEnglish
Article number325203
JournalJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Volume50
Issue number32
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jul 2017

User-Defined Keywords

  • asymptotic analysis
  • dendritic spine
  • mean frst passage time
  • mixed Robin-Neumann boundary value problem
  • Narrow escape problem

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