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The Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations are fundamental for modeling ion transport in electrochemical systems, capturing the intricate interplay of concentration gradients, electric fields, and ion fluxes essential for applications such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Yitao He , Dan Zhao

Optimal exploitation of supercomputing resources for the evaluation of electrostatic forces remains a challenge in molecular dynamics simulations of very large systems. The most efficient methods are currently based on particle-mesh Ewald…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Federica Troni , Davide Grassano , Jayashree Narayan , Benoît Roux , Sara Bonella

The accurate modeling of the dielectric properties of water is crucial for many applications in physics, computational chemistry and molecular biology. This becomes possible in the framework of nonlocal electrostatics, for which we propose…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Hildebrandt , R. Blossey , S. Rjasanow , O. Kohlbacher , H. -P. Lenhof

We propose a nonlocal Poisson-Fermi model for ionic solvent that includes ion size effects and polarization correlations among water molecules in the calculation of electrostatic potential. It includes the previous Poisson-Fermi models as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Dexuan Xie , Jinn-Liang Liu , Bob Eisenberg , L. Ridgway Scott

We present a linear scaling formulation for the solution of the all-electron Coulomb problem in crystalline solids. The resulting method is systematically improvable and well suited to large-scale quantum mechanical calculations in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-09 J. E. Pask , N. Sukumar , S. E. Mousavi

Non-local electrostatic interactions associated with the finite solvent size and ion polarizability are investigated within the mean-field linear response theory. To this end, we introduce a field theoretic model of a polar liquid composed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 Sahin Buyukdagli , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We consider the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in a periodic cell, representative of a porous medium. It is a model for the electrostatic distribution of $N$ chemical species diluted in a liquid at rest, occupying the pore space with charged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Gregoire Allaire , Jean-Francois Dufreche , Andro Mikelic , Andrey Piatnitski

We develop a preconditioned nonlinear conjugate-gradient solver for ground states of binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates within the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation including Lee-Huang-Yang corrections. The optimization is carried…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-29 Weijing Bao , Zhenhao Wang , Jia-Rui Luo , Kui-Tian Xi

At mesoscopic scales electrolyte solutions are modeled by the fluctuating generalized Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations [J.-P. P\'eraud et al., Phys. Rev. F, 1(7):074103, 2016]. However, at length and time scales larger than the Debye…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Aleksandar Donev , Andrew J. Nonaka , Changho Kim , Alejandro L. Garcia , John B. Bell

An approximate analytical solution to the fluctuation potential problem in the modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory of electrolyte solutions in the restricted primitive model is presented. The solution is valid for all inter-ionic distances,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-15 E. O. Ulloa-Dávila , L. B. Bhuiyan

Mobile charge in an electrolytic solution can in principle be represented as the divergence of ionic polarization. After adding explicit solvent polarization a finite volume of electrolyte can then be treated as a composite non-uniform…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-03 Michiel Sprik

A model is presented for the solution of electrokinetic phenomena of colloidal suspensions in fluid mixtures. We solve the discrete Boltzmann equation with a BGK collision operator using the lattice Boltzmann method to simulate binary fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-09 Nicolas Rivas , Stefan Frijters , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Jens Harting

The set of common numerical and analytical problems is introduced in the form of the generalized multidimensional discrete Poisson equation. It is shown that its solutions with square-summable discrete derivatives are unique up to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Roman Werpachowski

We present an explicit solver of the three-dimensional screened and unscreened Poisson's equation which combines accuracy, computational efficiency and versatility. The solver, based on a mixed plane-wave / interpolating scaling function…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-27 Alessandro Cerioni , Luigi Genovese , Alessandro Mirone , Vicente Armando Sole

The electrostatic interaction between two non-identical, moderately charged colloids situated in close proximity of each other at a fluid interface is studied. By resorting to a well-justified model system, this problem is analytically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-30 Arghya Majee , Timo Schmetzer , Markus Bier

Three analytic results are proposed for a linear form of the modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation in the theory of bulk electrolytes. Comparison is also made with the mean spherical approximation results. The linear theories predict a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-28 C. W. Outhwaite , L. B. Bhuiyan

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

For multispecies ions, we study boundary layer solutions of charge conserving Poisson-Boltzmann (CCPB) equations [50] (with a small parameter \k{o}) over a finite one-dimensional (1D) spatial domain, subjected to Robin type boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Chiun-Chang Lee , Hijin Lee , YunKyong Hyon , Tai-Chia Lin , Chun Liu

We study the variation of the dielectric response of ionic aqueous solutions as function of their ionic strength. The effect of salt on the dielectric constant appears through the coupling between ions and dipolar water molecules. On a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-19 Amir Levy , David Andelman , Henri Orland

The main purpose of this paper is the study of the action that produces Poisson-gradient systems and their multiple periodical solutions. The Section 1 establishes the basic tools. The section 2 underlines conditions in which the action…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Constantin Udriste , Iulian Duca