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In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

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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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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…

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We propose a method for solving constrained fixed point problems involving compositions of Lipschitz pseudo contractive and firmly nonexpansive operators in Hilbert spaces. Each iteration of the method uses separate evaluations of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Luis M. Briceño-Arias

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) models the electrostatic interactions of charged bodies such as molecules and proteins in an electrolyte solvent. The PBE is a challenging equation to solve numerically due to the presence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry

We introduce the $L^p$ Poisson-Neumann problem for an uniformly elliptic operator $L=-\rm{div }A\nabla$ in divergence form in a bounded 1-sided Chord Arc Domain $\Omega$, which considers solutions to $Lu=h-\rm{div}\vec{F}$ in $\Omega$ with…

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In this article, we present the mathematical analysis of the convergence of the linearized Crank-Nicolson Galerkin method for a nonlinear Schrodinger problem related to a domain with a moving boundary. The convergence analysis of the…

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Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties present well-known challenges for numerical simulations. In particular, such problems may feature large differences in length scales, causing difficulties with meshing and…

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We implement a well-established concept to consider dispersion effects within a Poisson-Boltzmann approach of continuum solvation of proteins. The theoretical framework is particularly suited for boundary element methods. Free parameters…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-11-28 Parimal Kar , Max Seel , Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Siegfried Hoefinger

Spingarn's method of partial inverses and the progressive decoupling algorithm address inclusion problems involving the sum of an operator and the normal cone of a linear subspace, known as linkage problems. Despite their success, existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Brecht Evens , Puya Latafat , Panagiotis Patrinos

The analysis of structure-preserving numerical methods for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) system has attracted growing interests in recent years. In this work, we provide an optimal rate convergence analysis and error estimate for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jie Ding , Cheng Wang , Shenggao Zhou

The Dirichlet-Neumann method is a common domain decomposition method for nonoverlapping domain decomposition and the method has been studied extensively for linear elliptic equations. However, for nonlinear elliptic equations, there are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Emil Engström

In this work, we are concerned with the regularities of the solutions to Boltzmann equation with the physical collision kernels for the full range of intermolecular repulsive potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$. We give the new and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-23 Yemin Chen , Lingbing He

We consider the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in a periodic cell, representative of a porous medium. It is a model for the electrostatic distribution of $N$ chemical species diluted in a liquid at rest, occupying the pore space with charged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Gregoire Allaire , Jean-Francois Dufreche , Andro Mikelic , Andrey Piatnitski

We study the convergence of the Method of Reflections for the Dirichlet problem of the Poisson and the Stokes equations in perforated domains which consist in the exterior of balls. We prove that the method converges if the balls are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Richard Höfer , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We revisit the homogenization problem for the Poisson equation in periodically perforated domains with zero Neumann data at the boundary of the holes and prescribed Dirichlet data at the outer boundary. It is known that, if the periodicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Wenjia Jing

Lawson's iteration is a classical and effective method for solving the linear (polynomial) minimax approximation problem in the complex plane. Extension of Lawson's iteration for the rational minimax approximation problem with both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Lei-Hong Zhang , Shanheng Han

In this work a dynamical system approach is taken to systematically investigate the one-dimensional classical Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation with various boundary conditions. This framework, particularly, the phase space portrait, has a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Kaiyin Huang , Weishi Liu

This paper extends the results regarding entropic convergence and the strong linearized limit for the Boltzmann equation (without external force) in [C. David Levermore. Entropic convergence and the linearized limit for the Boltzmann…

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