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An equation-by-equation (EBE) method is proposed to solve a system of nonlinear equations arising from the moment constrained maximum entropy problem of multidimensional variables. The design of the EBE method combines ideas from homotopy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Wenrui Hao , John Harlim

We prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solution of a Neumann boundary problem for an elliptic partial differential equation (PDE for short) with a singular divergence term which can only be understood in a weak sense. A probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

Helmholtz decompositions of the elastic fields open up new avenues for the solution of linear elastic scattering problems via boundary integral equations (BIE) [Dong, Lai, Li, Mathematics of Computation,2021]. The main appeal of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-03 V. Dominguez , C. Turc

The self-consistent quantum-electrostatic (also known as Poisson-Schr\"odinger) problem is notoriously difficult in situations where the density of states varies rapidly with energy. At low temperatures, these fluctuations make the problem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 P. Armagnat , A. Lacerda-Santos , B. Rossignol , C. Groth , X. Waintal

We present a continuation of our theoretical research into the influence of co-solvent polarizability on a differential capacitance of the electric double layer [EPL 111, 28002 (2015)]. We formulate a modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-11 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , M. G. Kiselev

The Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (PBE), which governs non-equilibrium phonon transport, suffers from the curse of dimensionality due to its high-dimensional phase space including both real and modal spaces. We explore the use of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Sangyeop Lee , Hirad Alipanah , Juan José Mendoza-Arenas

To accurately model the electron density and polarization, a polarizable multipole (PM) model using the AMOEBA force field has been introduced \cite{Ren:2003, Shi:2013} recently. In the AMOEBA force field, the traditional point atomic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Xin Yang , Shan Zhao , Weihua Geng

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is often presented via a variational formulation based on the electrostatic potential. However, the functional has the defect of being non-convex. It can not be used as a local minimization principle while…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-14 A. C. Maggs

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

An accurate force calculation with the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is challenging, as it requires the electric field on the molecular surface. Here, we present a calculation of the electric field on the solute-solvent interface that is exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Ian Addison-Smith , Horacio V. Guzmán , Christopher D. Cooper

With already demonstrated in previous work the equations that describe the space dependence of the electric potential are determined by the solution of the equation of Poisson-Boltzmann. In this work we consider these solutions for the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-09-30 M. A. G. Soares , F. A. O. Cruz , C. M. Cortez

A modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck system in a bounded domain with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. It describes the concentrations of ions immersed in a polar solvent and the correlated electric potential due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Ansgar Jüngel , Annamaria Massimini

Linear elastic fracture mechanics admit analytic solutions that have low regularity at crack tips. Current numerical methods for partial differential equations (PDEs) of this type suffer from the constraint of such low regularity, and fail…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Y. C. Zhou , Varun Gupta

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations rely on accurate solutions of the electrostatic Poisson equation, yet accuracy often deteriorates near irregular Dirichlet boundaries on Cartesian meshes. While much research has addressed discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Kai Zhang , Tao Xiao , Weizong Wang , Bijiao He

Nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to model dynamical processes in a large number of scientific fields, ranging from finance to biology. In many applications standard local models are not sufficient to accurately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Victor Boussange , Sebastian Becker , Arnulf Jentzen , Benno Kuckuck , Loïc Pellissier

This paper studies an efficient numerical method for solving modified Poisson-Boltzmann (MPB) equations with the self Green's function as a state equation to describe electrostatic correlations in ionic systems. Previously, the most…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Yihui Tu , Qiyuan Pang , Haizhao Yang , Zhenli Xu

We develop a numerical strategy to solve multi-dimensional Poisson equations on dynamically adapted grids for evolutionary problems disclosing propagating fronts. The method is an extension of the multiresolution finite volume scheme used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon

We consider the problem of numerically approximating the solutions to a partial differential equation (PDE) when there is insufficient information to determine a unique solution. Our main example is the Poisson boundary value problem, when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Peter Binev , Andrea Bonito , Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , Ronald DeVore , Guergana Petrova

We present a continuous finite element method for some examples of fully nonlinear elliptic equation. A key tool is the discretisation proposed in Lakkis & Pryer (2011, SISC) allowing us to work directly on the strong form of a linear PDE.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

Finite element method is one of powerful numerical methods to solve PDE. Usually, if a finite element solution to a Poisson equation based on a triangulation of the underlying domain is not accurate enough, one will discard the solution and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ming-Jun Lai , Haipeng Liu