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This paper outlines an energy-minimization finite-element approach to the modeling of equilibrium configurations for nematic liquid crystals in the presence of internal and external electric fields. The method targets minimization of system…

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We consider scalar semilinear elliptic PDEs, where the nonlinearity is strongly monotone, but only locally Lipschitz continuous. To linearize the arising discrete nonlinear problem, we employ a damped Zarantonello iteration, which leads to…

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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 construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of a fractional porous medium equation on a bounded open Lipschitz polytopal domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$, where $d = 2$ or $3$. The pressure in the model is defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 José A. Carrillo , Stefano Fronzoni , Endre Süli

Complex colloidal fluids, such as emulsions stabilized by complex shaped particles, play an important role in many industrial applications. However, understanding their physics requires a study at sufficiently large length scales while…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-27 Florian Günther , Florian Janoschek , Stefan Frijters , Jens Harting

A nonlinear Helmholtz equation (NLH) with high wave number and Sommerfeld radiation condition is approximated by the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and then discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Run Jiang , Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu , Jun Zou

Ion partitioning between different compartments (\emph{e.g.} a porous material and a bulk solution reservoir), known as Donnan equilibrium, plays a fundamental role in various contexts such as energy, environment, or water treatment. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jeongmin Kim , Benjamin Rotenberg

We consider a system of nonlinear partial differential equations modelling the steady motion of an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid, which is chemically reacting. The governing system consists of a steady convection-diffusion equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Seungchan Ko , Petra Pustejovská , Endre Süli

This paper mainly considers three iterations based on charge-conservative finite element approximation in Lipschitz domain for the stationary thermally coupled inductionless MHD equations. Based on the hybrid finite element method, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Shitian Dong , Haiyan Su

Consider the Poisson equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition on a three-dimensional polyhedral domain. For singular solutions from the non-smoothness of the domain boundary, we propose new anisotropic tetrahedral mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Hengguang Li

An efficient surface integral equation-based method is proposed for the analysis of electromagnetic scattering from multilayered media containing complex periodic inclusions. The proposed method defines equivalent currents at the interfaces…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-19 Nilufer A. Ozdemir , Christophe Craeye

We propose a new binary classification model called Phase Separation Binary Classifier (PSBC). It consists of a discretization of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation coupled with an Ordinary Differential Equation, and is inspired by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-21 Rafael Monteiro

In this paper, we develop a Bayesian multiscale approach based on a multiscale finite element method. Because of scale disparity in many multiscale applications, computational models can not resolve all scales. Various subgrid models are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Y. Efendiev , W. T. Leung , S. W. Cheung , N. Guha , V. H. Hoang , B. Mallick

Despite the numerous applications that may be expeditiously modelled by counting processes, stochastic filtering strategies involving Poisson-type observations still remain somewhat poorly developed. In this work, we propose a Monte Carlo…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-09 Mamatha Venugopal , Ram Mohan Vasu , Debasish Roy

In this article, we develop goal-oriented error indicators to drive adaptive refinement algorithms for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Empirical results for the solvation free energy linear functional demonstrate that goal-oriented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Burak Aksoylu , Stephen Bond , Eric Cyr , Michael Holst

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a relevant partial differential equation commonly used in biophysical applications to estimate the electrostatic energy of biomolecular systems immersed in electrolytic solutions. A conventional mean…

We study a nonlocal diffusion equation of porous medium type featuring a generalised fractional pressure with spatial anisotropy. We construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of the equation on a bounded open Lipschitz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Stefano Fronzoni

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

We rigorously derive a homogenized model for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations for the case of multiple species defined on a periodic porous medium in spatial dimensions two and three. This extends the previous homogenization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Apratim Bhattacharya

In this paper we propose a computational framework for the investigation of the correlated motion between positive and negative ions exposed to the attraction of a bubble surface that mimics the (oscillating) cell membrane. The correlated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Antonio Raudino , Antonio Grassi , Giuseppe Lombardo , Giovanni Russo , Clarissa Astuto , Mario Corti