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The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation provides a mean-field theory of electrolyte solutions at interfaces and in confinement, describing how ions reorganize close to charged surfaces to form the so-called electrical double layer (EDL), with…

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Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is the classic approach to soft matter electrostatics which has been applied to numerous problems of physical chemistry and biophysics. Its essential limitations are the neglect of correlation effects and of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Sahin Buyukdagli , Ralf Blossey

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation offers an efficient way to study electrostatics in molecular settings. Its numerical solution with the boundary element method is widely used, as the complicated molecular surface is accurately represented by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Stefan D. Search , Christopher D. Cooper , Elwin van't Wout

The computational study of chemical reactions in complex, wet environments is critical for applications in many fields. It is often essential to study chemical reactions in the presence of applied electrochemical potentials, taking into…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Fisicaro , L. Genovese , O. Andreussi , N. Marzari , S. Goedecker

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-08 Yongxian Wu , Qiang Zhu , Ray Luo

In our recent work [H. Zhang, F.X. Trias, A. Oliva, D. Yang, Y. Tan, Y. Sheng. PIBM: Particulate immersed boundary method for fluid-particle interaction problems. Powder Technology. 272(2015), 1-13.], a particulate immersed boundary method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 Hao Zhang , Haizhuan Yuan , F. Xavier Trias , Aibing Yu , Yuanqiang Tan , Assensi Oliva

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a widely used model to study the electrostatics in molecular solvation. Its numerical solution using a boundary integral formulation requires a mesh on the molecular surface only, yielding accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Vicente Ramm , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry , Christopher D. Cooper

We present an analytical many-body formalism for systems of spherical particles carrying arbitrary free charge distributions and interacting in a polarizable electrolyte solution, that we model within the linearized Poisson--Boltzmann…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Sergii V. Siryk , Walter Rocchia

We derive the partial differential equation (PDE) to which the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann method (P-LBM) converges under diffusive scaling, providing a rigorous basis for its consistency analysis. By establishing a direct link…

A widely used electrostatics model in the biomolecular modeling community, the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, along with its finite element approximation, are analyzed in this paper. A regularized Poisson-Boltzmann equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

In this paper, we propose a fast multipole method (FMM) for 3-D linearized Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation in layered media. The main framework of the algorithm is analogous to the FMM for Helmholtz and Laplace equation in layered media…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Bo Wang , Wen Zhong Zhang , Wei Cai

It is well known that the number of particles should be scaled up to enable industrial scale simulation. The calculations are more computationally intensive when the motion of the surrounding fluid is considered. Besides the advances in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Hao Zhang , F. Xavier Trias , Assensi Oliva , Dongmin Yang , Yuanqiang Tan , Shi Shu , Yong Sheng

We present BO-PBK (BO-Product-Bi-Kappa), a new solver for kinetic dispersion relations of obliquely propagating waves in magnetized plasmas with complex velocity distributions. It reformulates the linearized Vlasov-Maxwell system into a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Wei Bai , Huasheng Xie

The Poisson-Boltzmann model is an effective and popular approach for modeling solvated biomolecules in continuum solvent with dissolved electrolytes. In this paper, we report our recent work in developing a Galerkin boundary integral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jiahui Chen , Johannes Tausch , Weihua Geng

We study the geometric particle-in-cell methods for an electrostatic hybrid plasma model. In this model, ions are described by the fully kinetic equations, electron density is determined by the Boltzmann relation, and space-charge effects…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Yingzhe Li

Modeling of biomolecular systems plays an essential role in understanding biological processes, such as ionic flow across channels, protein modification or interaction, and cell signaling. The continuum model described by the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Yu Qiao , Benzhuo Lu

In this paper, a domain decomposition method for the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) solvation model that is widely used in computational chemistry is proposed. This method, called ddLPB for short, solves the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (LPB) equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Chaoyu Quan , Benjamin Stamm , Yvon Maday

In this work, a systematic protocol is proposed to automatically parametrize implicit solvent models with polar and nonpolar components. The proposed protocol utilizes the classical Poisson model or the Kohn-Sham density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Bao Wang , Chengzhang Wang , Guowei Wei

Electrostatic interactions play crucial roles in biophysical processes such as protein folding and molecular recognition. Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE)-based models have emerged as widely used in modeling these important processes.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Ruxi Qi , Wesley M. Botello-Smith , Ray Luo

A numerical method using implicit surface representations is proposed to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations that arise in mathematical models for the electrostatics of molecules in solvent. The proposed method used an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Yimin Zhong , Kui Ren , Richard Tsai