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We present a 3D finite element solver for the nonlinear Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations for electrodiffusion, coupled to the Stokes system of fluid dynamics. The model serves as a building block for the simulation of macromolecule…

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The interaction of particles in an electrolytic medium can be calculated by solving the Poisson equation inside the solutes and the linearized Poisson--Boltzmann equation in the solvent, with suitable boundary conditions at the interfaces.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-12 Sergii V. Siryk , Walter Rocchia

Extracting consistent statistics between relevant free-energy minima of a molecular system is essential for physics, chemistry and biology. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can aid in this task but are computationally expensive,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Ana Molina-Taborda , Pilar Cossio , Olga Lopez-Acevedo , Marylou Gabrié

This paper presents the first implementation of a coupling between advanced wave function theories and molecular density functional theory (MDFT). This method enables the modeling of solvent effect into quantum mechanical (QM) calculations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Maxime Labat , Emmanuel Giner , Guillaume Jeanmairet

For the Poisson equation posed in a domain containing a large number of polygonal perforations, we propose a low-dimensional coarse approximation space based on a coarse polygonal partitioning of the domain. Similarly to other multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Miranda Boutilier , Konstantin Brenner , Victorita Dolean

The high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combining with an implicit iterative scheme is used to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation with full collision integral on two-dimensional triangular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

The accurate theoretical description of materials with strongly correlated electrons is a formidable challenge in condensed matter physics and computational chemistry. Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful approach that…

The convergence to the self-consistency in the dynamical-mean-field-theory (DMFT) calculations for models of correlated electron systems can be significantly accelerated by using an appropriate mixing of hybridization functions which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Rok Zitko

We present a numerical method for grand canonical density functional theory (DFT) tailored to solid-state systems, employing Gaussian-type orbitals as the primary basis. Our approach directly minimizes the grand canonical free energy using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Anton Z. Ni , Adam Rettig , Joonho Lee

Ideal density-functional approximations (DFAs) should account for dynamic, static, and nondynamic correlation. While common DFAs struggle with the latter two, the Ziegler-Rauk-Baerends-Daul multiplet sum method (MSM) provides a pragmatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Mark E Casida , Abraham Ponra , Gadzikano Munyuki , Bharathi Natarajan

This study investigates the use of machine learning (ML) to correct the enthalpy of formation (Hf) from two separate DFT functionals, PBE and SCAN, to the experimental Hf across 1011 solid-state compounds. The ML model uses a set of 25…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-18 Santosh Adhikari , Christopher J. Bartel , Christopher Sutton

We describe a new, adaptive solver for the two-dimensional Poisson equation in complicated geometries. Using classical potential theory, we represent the solution as the sum of a volume potential and a double layer potential. Rather than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Fredrik Fryklund , Leslie Greengard

A simple technique is proposed for numerically determining equilibrium ion distribution functions belonging to free energies of the Poisson-Boltzmann type. The central idea is to perform a conventional Monte-Carlo simulation using the free…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Markus Deserno

Osmotic coefficients, individual and mean activity coefficients of primitive model electrolyte solutions are computed at different molar concentrations using the symmetric Poisson-Boltzmann and modified Poisson-Boltzmann theories. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-27 A. O. Quiñones , L. B. Bhuiyan , C. W. Outhwaite

A mixed basis approach based on density functional theory is extended to one-dimensional(1D) systems. The basis functions here are taken to be the localized B-splines for the two finite non-periodic dimensions and the plane waves for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 Chung-Yuan Ren , Yia-Chung Chang , Chen-Shiung Hsue

A technique allowing for a perturbative treatment of nonlocal corrections to the single-site dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) in finite dimensions is developed. It is based on the observation that in the case of strong electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-02 V. I. Tokar , R. Monnier

We present an efficient scheme for representing many-body wavefunctions in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations. The scheme is based on B-splines (blip functions), which consist of localized cubic splines centred on the points of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 D. Alfè , M. J. Gillan

Poisson's equation has been used in VLSI global placement for describing the potential field caused by a given charge density distribution. Unlike previous global placement methods that solve Poisson's equation numerically, in this paper,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Wenxing Zhu , Zhipeng Huang , Jianli Chen , Yao-Wen Chang

Although many programs have been published for fully numerical Hartree--Fock (HF) or density functional (DF) calculations on atoms, we are not aware of any that support hybrid DFs, which are popular within the quantum chemistry community…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Susi Lehtola

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu