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We describe a three-stage procedure to analyze the dependence of Poisson Boltzmann calculations on the shape, size and geometry of the boundary between solute and solvent. Our study is carried out within the boundary element formalism, but…

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We present the open source distributed software package Poisson-Boltzmann Analytical Method (PB-AM), a fully analytical solution to the linearized Poisson Boltzmann equation, for molecules represented as non-overlapping spherical cavities.…

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This paper presents an efficient high-order sharp-interface method for solving the three-dimensional (3D) Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a nonuniform Cartesian grid with irregular domain boundaries. The new approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Shirzad Hosseinverdi , Hermann F. Fasel

Developing accurate solvers for the Poisson Boltzmann (PB) model is the first step to make the PB model suitable for implicit solvent simulation. Reducing the grid size influence on the performance of the solver benefits to increasing the…

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The Immersed Boundary (IB) method of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977) is useful for problems involving fluid-structure interactions or complex geometries. By making use of a regular grid that is independent of the geometry, the IB framework…

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To accurately model the electron density and polarization, a polarizable multipole (PM) model using the AMOEBA force field has been introduced \cite{Ren:2003, Shi:2013} recently. In the AMOEBA force field, the traditional point atomic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Xin Yang , Shan Zhao , Weihua Geng

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…

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We discuss the scalable parallel solution of the Poisson equation within a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for the simulation of electron beams in particle accelerators of irregular shape. The problem is discretized by Finite Differences.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Adelmann , P. Arbenz , Y. Ineichen

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977) is useful for problems involving fluid-structure interactions or complex geometries. By making use of a regular Cartesian grid that is independent of the geometry, the IB…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Brittany J. Leathers , Robert D. Guy

This work further improves the pseudo-transient approach for the Poisson Boltzmann equation (PBE) in the electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules. The numerical solution of the nonlinear PBE is known to involve many difficulties,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Benjamin Jones , Sheik Ahmed Ullah , Siwen Wang , Shan Zhao

Multiscale methods for second order elliptic equations based on non-overlapping domain decomposition schemes have great potential to take advantage of multi-core, state-of-the-art parallel computers. These methods typically involve solving…

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We present two improved randomized neural network methods, namely RNN-Scaling and RNN-Boundary-Processing (RNN-BP) methods, for solving elliptic equations such as the Poisson equation and the biharmonic equation. The RNN-Scaling method…

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In computational biochemistry and biophysics, understanding the role of electrostatic interactions is crucial for elucidating the structure, dynamics, and function of biomolecules. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation is a foundational tool…

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This work presents a generalized boundary integral method for elliptic equations on surfaces, encompassing both boundary value and interface problems. The method is kernel-free, implying that the explicit analytical expression of the kernel…

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The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is widely used to model molecular electrostatics; however, it is usually solved in linearised form because the sinh nonlinearity is challenging, limiting its applicability in highly charged systems such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Mauricio Guerrero-Montero , Michal Bosy , Christopher D. Cooper

In numerical simulations of many charged systems at the micro/nano scale, a common theme is the repeated solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. This task proves challenging, if not entirely infeasible, largely due to the nonlinearity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Lijie Ji , Yanlai Chen , Zhenli Xu

Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model is one of the most popular implicit solvent models in biophysical modeling and computation. The ability of providing accurate and reliable PB estimation of electrostatic solvation free energy, $\Delta…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-10 Duc D. Nguyen , Bao Wang , Guo-wei Wei

Electrostatics is of paramount importance to chemistry, physics, biology, and medicine. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is a primary model for electrostatic analysis. However, it is highly challenging to compute accurate PB electrostatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Jiahui Chen , Yongjia Xu , Xin Yang , Zixuan Cang , Weihua Geng , Guo-Wei Wei

The non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation for a circular, uniformly charged platelet, confined together with co- and counter-ions to a cylindrical cell, is solved semi-analytically by transforming it into an integral equation and solving…

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