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We construct one soliton solutions for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with variable quadratic Hamiltonians in a unified form by taking advantage of a complete (super) integrability of generalized harmonic oscillators. The soliton wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Erwin Suazo , Sergei K. Suslov

We present a continuation of our theoretical research into the influence of co-solvent polarizability on a differential capacitance of the electric double layer [EPL 111, 28002 (2015)]. We formulate a modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-11 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , M. G. Kiselev

Unlike many deterministic PDEs, stochastic equations are not amenable to the classical variational theory of Euler-Lagrange. In this paper, we show how self-dual variational calculus leads to solutions of various stochastic partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Shirin Boroushaki , Nassif Ghoussoub

A variational solution procedure is reported for the many-particle no-pair Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian aiming at a parts-per-billion (ppb) convergence of the atomic and molecular energies, described within the fixed nuclei…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Péter Jeszenszki , Dávid Ferenc , Edit Mátyus

We solve the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation for two parallel and likely charged plates both inside a symmetric elecrolyte, and inside a 2 : 1 asymmetric electrolyte, in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions. From these solutions we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiangjun Xing

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) models the electrostatic interactions of charged bodies such as molecules and proteins in an electrolyte solvent. The PBE is a challenging equation to solve numerically due to the presence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry

In this work we design and analyze a free energy satisfying finite difference method for solving Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations in a bounded domain. The algorithm is of second order in space, with numerical solutions satisfying all three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

Reciprocal space methods for solving Poisson's equation for finite charge distributions are investigated. Improvements to previous proposals are presented, and their performance is compared in the context of a real-space density functional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Castro , Angel Rubio , M. J. Stott

The Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the phase-space probability distribution of classical particles under binary collisions. Approximations to it underlie the basis for several scholarly fields, including aerodynamics and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 George J. Wilkie , Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow

The classical problem of two uniformly charged infinite planes in electrochemical equilibrium with an infinite monovalent salt reservoir is solved exactly at the mean-field nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) level, including an explicit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. N. Tamashiro , H. Schiessel

We derive an explicit formula for global weak solutions of the one dimensional system of pressure-less Euler-Poisson equations. Our variational formulation is an extension of the well-known formula for entropy solutions of the scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Eitan Tadmor , Dongming Wei

Wereportonanewmultiscalemethodapproachforthestudyofsystemswith wide separation of short-range forces acting on short time scales and long-range forces acting on much slower scales. We consider the case of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Giovanni Lapenta , Wei Jiang

We define a finite element method for the coupling of Stokes and nonlinear Poisson--Boltzmann equations. The novelty in the formulation is that the coupling from the electric potential to the drag in the momentum balance is rewritten as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Abeer F. AlSohaim , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Segundo Villa-Fuentes

Computer-aided engineering techniques are indispensable in modern engineering developments. In particular, partial differential equations are commonly used to simulate the dynamics of physical phenomena, but very large systems are often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Yuki Sato , Ruho Kondo , Satoshi Koide , Hideki Takamatsu , Nobuyuki Imoto

We study a nonlinear system made up of an elliptic equation of blended singular/degenerate type and Poisson's equation with a lowly integrable source. We prove the existence of a weak solution in any space dimension and, chiefly, derive an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Edgard A. Pimentel , José Miguel Urbano

In a continuum model of the solvation of charged molecules in an aqueous solvent, the classical Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is generalized to include the solute point charges and the dielectric boundary that separates the high-dielectric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Bo Li , Zhengfang Zhang , Shenggao Zhou

Poisson-Boltzmann theory is the cornerstone for soft matter electrostatics. We provide novel exact analytical solutions to this non-linear mean-field approach, for the diffuse layer of ions in the vicinity of a planar or a cylindrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-29 L. Samaj , E. Trizac

We propose a novel efficient algorithm to solve Poisson equation in irregular two dimensional domains for electrostatics. It can handle Dirichlet, Neumann or mixed boundary problems in which the filling media can be homogeneous or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Zu-Hui Ma , Weng Cho Chew , Li Jun Jiang

The Linearized Poisson--Boltzmann (LPB) equation is a popular and widely accepted model for accounting solvent effects in computational (bio-) chemistry. In the present article we derive the analytical forces of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Abhinav Jha , Michele Nottoli , Aleksandr Mikhalev , Chaoyu Quan , Benjamin Stamm

In this work, we propose a new Galerkin-Petrov method for the numerical solution of the classical spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation. This method is based on an approximation of the distribution function by associated Laguerre…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Irene M. Gamba , Sergej Rjasanow