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In this paper, we develop a domain decomposition method for the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation based on a solvent-excluded surface widely used in computational chemistry. The model relies on a nonlinear equation defined in…
Numerical simulations based on electronic structure calculations are finding ever growing applications in many areas of physics. A major limiting factor is however the cubic scaling of the algorithms used. Building on previous work [F. R.…
The size-modified Poisson-Boltzmann (MPB) equation is an efficient implicit solvation model which also captures electrolytic solvent effects. It combines an account of the dielectric solvent response with a mean-field description of…
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…
A variational approach is used to develop a robust numerical procedure for solving the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Following Maggs et al., we construct an appropriate constrained free energy functional, such that its…
In numerical simulations of many charged systems at the micro/nano scale, a common theme is the repeated solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. This task proves challenging, if not entirely infeasible, largely due to the nonlinearity…
This work investigates the convergence of a domain decomposition method for the Poisson-Boltzmann model that can be formulated as an interior-exterior transmission problem. To study its convergence, we introduce an interior-exterior…
The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a nonlinear elliptic PDE that arises in biomolecular modeling and is a fundamental tool for structural biology. It is used to calculate electrostatic potentials around an ensemble of fixed charges…
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…
This paper investigates a computational strategy for studying the interactions between multiple through-the-width delaminations and global or local buckling in composite laminates taking into account possible contact between the delaminated…
This work outlines a Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) for geometrically and constitutively nonlinear solid mechanics to simulate large deformations under dynamic loading conditions. The method utilizes the moment chain approach, where the…
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…
The electrostatic potential in the neighborhood of a biomolecule can be computed thanks to the non-linear divergence-form elliptic Poisson-Boltzmann PDE. Dedicated Monte-Carlo methods have been developed to solve its linearized version (see…
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…
Alchemical free energy calculations via molecular dynamics have been widely used to obtain thermodynamic properties related to protein-ligand binding and solute-solvent interactions. Although soft-core modeling is the most common approach,…
We present an algorithm to compute $\mathrm{LCLM}$-decompositions for linear differentials operators with coefficients in the rational function field of characteristic $p$, $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}(t)$. We show that for an operator $L$ of order…
We present an extension to the Poisson-Boltzmann model where the dipolar features of solvent molecules are taken explicitly into account. The formulation is derived at mean-field level and can be extended to any order in a systematic…
In this paper, analytic relations between the macroscopic variables and the mesoscopic variables are derived for lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM). The analytic relations are achieved by two different methods for the exchange from velocity…
We present a simple, parallel and distributed algorithm for setting up and partitioning a sparse representation of a regular discretized simulation domain. This method is scalable for a large number of processes even for complex geometries…