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The Poisson--Boltzmann equation is widely used to model electrostatics in molecular systems. Available software packages solve it using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods, where the latter is attractive due to…

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The Poisson equation is critical to get a self-consistent solution in plasma fluid simulations used for Hall effect thrusters and streamer discharges, since the Poisson solution appears as a source term of the unsteady nonlinear flow…

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This work introduces novel unconditionally stable operator splitting methods for solving the time dependent nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann (NPB) equation for the electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules. In a pseudo-transient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-13 Leighton Wilson , Shan Zhao

Characterizing the local voltage distribution within nanophysiological domains, driven by ionic currents through membrane channels, is crucial for studying cellular activity in modern biophysics, yet it presents significant experimental and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-14 Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre , Alejandro Barea Moreno , David Holcman

It is shown how various ideas that are well established for the solution of Poisson's equation using plane wave and multigrid methods can be combined with wavelet concepts. The combination of wavelet concepts and multigrid techniques turns…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Goedecker

We present a novel numerical scheme for the efficient and accurate solution of the isothermal two-fluid (electron and ion) equations coupled to Poisson's equation for low-temperature plasmas. The model considers electrons and ions as…

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In this paper, we study the biharmonic equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a polygonal domain. In particular, we propose a method that effectively decouples the fourth-order problem into a system of two Poison equations and one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Hengguang Li , Charuka D. Wickramasinghe , Peimeng Yin

In this paper, the stabilized finite element approximation of the Stokes eigenvalue problems is considered for both the two-field (displacement-pressure) and the three-field (stress-displacement-pressure) formulations. The method presented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Önder Türk , Daniele Boffi , Ramon Codina

We discuss and analyze the virtual element method on general polygonal meshes for the time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, which are a nonlinear coupled system widely used in semiconductors and ion channels. The spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Ying Yang , Ya Liu , Shi Shu

The account of electron correlation and its efficient separation into dynamic and nondynamic parts plays a key role in the development of computational methods. In this paper we suggest a physically-sound matrix formulation to split…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Eloy Ramos-Cordoba , Pedro Salvador , Eduard Matito

Due to the high computational load of modern numerical simulation, there is a demand for approaches that would reduce the size of discrete problems while keeping the accuracy reasonable. In this work, we present an original algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Sergei Shumilin , Alexander Ryabov , Nikolay Yavich , Evgeny Burnaev , Vladimir Vanovskiy

Mode conversion in non-homogeneous elastic media makes it challenging to interpret physical properties accurately. Decomposing these modes correctly is crucial across various scientific areas. Recent machine learning approaches have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 E. A. B. Alves , P. D. S. de Lima , D. H. G. Duarte , M. S. Ferreira , J. M. de Araújo , C. G. Bezerra

We have developed an efficient algorithm for steady axisymmetrical 2D fluid equations. The algorithm employs multigrid method as well as standard implicit discretization schemes for systems of partial differential equations. Linearity of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-12-01 Zoran Ristivojevic , Zoran Lj. Petrovic

This paper presents two kinds of strategies to construct structure-preserving algorithms with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions for the sine-Gordon equation, while most existing structure-preserving algorithms are only valid for zero…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Wenjun Cai , Chaolong Jiang , Yushun Wang

The micropolar Rayleigh-B{\'e}nard convection system, which consists of Navier-Stokes equations, the angular momentum equation, and the heat equation, is a strongly nonlinear, coupled, and saddle point structural multiphysics system. A…

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We develop an energy-decreasing algorithm for the finite element approximation of two-dimensional ferronematic equilibrium states. The problem is formulated as the minimization of the harmonic energy of two two-dimensional vector fields,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Alexandre Ern , Ruma R. Maity

Two-fluid plasma flow equations describe the flow of ions and electrons with different densities, velocities, and pressures. We consider the ideal plasma flow i.e. we ignore viscous, resistive, and collision effects. The resulting system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jaya Agnihotri , Deepak Bhoriya , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekhar , Dinshaw S. Balsara

In this article we address the study of ion charge transport in the biological channels separating the intra and extracellular regions of a cell. The focus of the investigation is devoted to including thermal driving forces in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Riccardo Sacco , Fabio Manganini , Joseph W. Jerome

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

Two-grid theory plays a fundamental role in the design and analysis of multigrid methods. This paper is devoted to a new convergence analysis of two-grid methods for singular and symmetric positive semidefinite systems. Specifically, we…

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