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The electrostatic force on a spherical particle near a planar surface is calculated for the cases of a uniform electric field applied in either normal or tangential direction to the surface. The particle and suspending media are assumed to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Zhanwen Wang , Michael J. Miksis , Petia M. Vlahovska

A proper treatment of electrostatic interactions is crucial for the accurate calculation of forces in computer simulations. Electrostatic interactions are typically modeled using Ewald based methods, which have become one of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-21 K. A. Terrón-Mejía , R. López-Rendón , A. Gama Goicochea

In article the following tasks on computer modeling of electric fields are analyzed: 1) calculation of distribution of potential for the field created by two parallel plates and charged bodies in the non-uniform environment; 2) calculation…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-16 Robert V Mayer

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

We present a new multilevel method for calculating Poisson's equation, which often arises form electrostatic problems, by using hierarchical loop bases. This method, termed hierarchical Loop basis Poisson Solver (hieLPS), extends previous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Z. -H. Ma , W. C. Chew , Y. M. Wu , L. J. Jiang

We propose an efficient algorithm for the evaluation of the potential and its gradient of gravitational/electrostatic $N$-body systems, which we call particle mesh multipole method (PMMM or PM$^3$). PMMM can be understood both as an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-20 Keigo Nitadori

In this paper, we apply the range-separated (RS) tensor format [6] for the construction of new regularization scheme for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) describing the electrostatic potential in biomolecules. In our approach, we use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Peter Benner , Venera Khoromskaia , Boris Khoromskij , Cleophas Kweyu , Matthias Stein

This article describes Monte-Carlo algorithms for charged systems using constrained updates for the electric field. The method is generalized to treat inhomogeneous dielectric media, electrolytes via the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. C. Maggs

In electromagnetic statics, the standard procedure to determine the electric scalar potential or magnetic vector potential in a bounded space is to solve Poisson's equation subject to certain boundary conditions. On the other hand, as a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Weiwei Zhao , Hao Jin , Hao Guo

The electrostatic potential in the neighborhood of a biomolecule can be computed thanks to the non-linear divergence-form elliptic Poisson-Boltzmann PDE. Dedicated Monte-Carlo methods have been developed to solve its linearized version (see…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Mireille Bossy , Nicolas Champagnat , Helene Leman , Sylvain Maire , Laurent Violeau , Mariette Yvinec

A fundamental task in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of plasma physics is solving for charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields. This problem is especially challenging when the plasma is strongly magnetized due to numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tri P. Nguyen , Ilon Joseph , Mayya Tokman

We study the computation of equilibrium points of electrostatic potentials: locations in space where the electrostatic force arising from a collection of charged particles vanishes. This is a novel scenario of optimization in which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Abheek Ghosh , Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender

Many high power electronic devices operate in a regime where the current they draw is limited by the self-fields of the particles. This space-charge-limited current poses particular challenges for numerical modeling where common techniques…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Peter H. Stoltz , John W. Luginsland , Andrew M. Chap , David N. Smithe , John R. Cary

Stochastic solutions are obtained for the Maxwell-Vlasov equation in the approximation where magnetic field fluctuations are neglected and the electrostatic potential is used to compute the electric field. This is a reasonable approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Vilela Mendes

We present an analysis of different methods to calculate the classical electrostatic Hartree potential created by charge distributions. Our goal is to provide the reader with an estimation on the performance ---in terms of both numerical…

Solving for charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields (i.e. the particle pushing problem) is a computationally intensive component of particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for plasma physics simulations. This task is especially challenging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tri P. Nguyen , Ilon Joseph , Mayya Tokman

The aim of this paper is to investigate the unstable nature of pressure computation focusing on incompressible flow modeling through the projection-based particle methods. A new approach from the original viewpoint of the momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-18 Liang-Yee Cheng , Rubens Augusto Amaro Junior , Eric Henrique Favero

An algorithm for fast calculation of the Coulombic forces and energies of point particles with free boundary conditions is proposed. Its calculation time scales as N log N for N particles. This novel method has lower crossover point with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexey Neelov , S. Alireza Ghasemi , Stefan Goedecker

In simulating charged systems, it is often useful to treat some ionic components of the system at the mean-field level and solve the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation to get their respective density profiles. The numerically intensive task of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-30 Vikram Jadhao , Francisco J. Solis , Monica Olvera de la Cruz

With the significant advancements in parallel computing techniques, the particle-particle (PP) model has been effectively utilized in various plasma-related applications. However, PP has been limited for solving only electrostatic problems…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Yanan Zhang , Xiaochun Ma , Hui Liu , Yinjian Zhao
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