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We present a novel method to solve the spatially homogeneous and isotropic relativistic Boltzmann equation. We employ a basis set of orthogonal polynomials dynamically adapted to allow for emergence of chemical non-equilibrium. Two time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Jeremiah Birrell , Jon Wilkening , Johann Rafelski

Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is the classic approach to soft matter electrostatics which has been applied to numerous problems of physical chemistry and biophysics. Its essential limitations are the neglect of correlation effects and of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Sahin Buyukdagli , Ralf Blossey

Solving the stationary nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations is important in applications and examples include the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the two layer neural networks. Making use of the connection between the interacting particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Lei Li , Yijia Tang , Jingtong Zhang

A new protocol for linearization of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is proposed and the resultant electrostatic equation coincides formally with the Debye-Huckel equation, the solution of which is well known for many electrostatic problems.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 R. Tsekov

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is an implicit solvent continuum model for calculating the electrostatic potential and energies of ionic solvated biomolecules. However, its numerical solution remains a significant challenge due strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Cleophas Kweyu , Venera Khoromskaia , Boris Khoromskij , Matthias Stein , Peter Benner

A numerical method using implicit surface representations is proposed to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations that arise in mathematical models for the electrostatics of molecules in solvent. The proposed method used an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Yimin Zhong , Kui Ren , Richard Tsai

We present an algorithm of finding numerical solutions of pulsar equation. The problem of finding the solutions was reduced to finding expansion coefficients of the source term of the equation in a base of orthogo- nal functions defined on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lukasz Bratek , Marcin Kolonko

An accurate force calculation with the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is challenging, as it requires the electric field on the molecular surface. Here, we present a calculation of the electric field on the solute-solvent interface that is exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Ian Addison-Smith , Horacio V. Guzmán , Christopher D. Cooper

The description of a conducting medium in thermal equilibrium, such as an electrolyte solution or a plasma, involves nonlinear electrostatics, a subject rarely discussed in the standard electricity and magnetism textbooks. We consider in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 C. G. Gray , P. J. Stiles

The general solution to the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation for two parallel charged plates, either inside a symmetric elecrolyte, or inside a 2q:-q asymmetric electrolyte, is found in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions. From this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Xiangjun Xing

We investigate mathematically a nonlinear approximation type approach recently introduced in [A. Ammar et al., J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 2006] to solve high dimensional partial differential equations. We show the link between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-11-05 C. Le Bris , T. Lelievre , Y. Maday

Porous electrodes are widely used in electrochemical systems, where accurately determining electric potentials, particularly overpotentials, is essential for understanding electrode behavior. At the macroscopic scale, porous electrodes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Yuhe Wang , Min Wang , Zhihang Xu

A semi-classical approach to the study of the evolution of anyonic excitations--elementary particles with fractional statistics, complementing bosons and fermions--is through the Boltzmann equation for anyons. This work reviews a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Niclas Bernhoff

A simple method has been introduced to furnish the equilibrium solution of the Wigner equation for all order of the quantum correction. This process builds up a recursion relation involving the coefficients of the different power of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Anirban Bose , M. S. Janaki

In this paper a spectral-Lagrangian method for the Boltzmann equation for a multi-energy level gas is proposed. Internal energy levels are treated as separate species and inelastic collisions (leading to internal energy excitation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Alessandro Munafo , Jeffrey R. Haack , Irene M. Gamba , Thierry E. Magin

We present an extension to the Poisson-Boltzmann model where the dipolar features of solvent molecules are taken explicitly into account. The formulation is derived at mean-field level and can be extended to any order in a systematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-31 Ariel Abrashkin , David Andelman , Henri Orland

A Hamiltonian approach to the solution of the Vlasov-Poisson equations has been developed. Based on a nonlinear canonical transformation, the rapidly oscillating terms in the original Hamiltonian are transformed away, yielding a new…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephan I. Tzenov , Ronald C. Davidson

We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…

We numerically solve the non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation for two cylinders confined by two parallel charged plates. The repulsive electrical double layer component of the cylinder pair potential is substantially reduced by confinement…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark Ospeck , Seth Fraden

This paper presents an iterative method suitable for inverting semilinear problems which are important kernels in many numerical applications. The primary idea is to employ a parametrization that is able to reduce semilinear problems into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Prosper Torsu