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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

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

In this paper we develop a methodology for the mesoscale simulation of strong electrolytes. The methodology is an extension of the Fluctuating Immersed Boundary (FIB) approach that treats a solute as discrete Lagrangian particles that…

In this paper within a field-theoretical approach taking into account explicitly a co-solvent with a nonzero dipole and a polarizability tensor, we derive a modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Applying the modified Poisson-Boltzmann…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-02 Y. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , M. G. Kiselev

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a widely used model to study the electrostatics in molecular solvation. Its numerical solution using a boundary integral formulation requires a mesh on the molecular surface only, yielding accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Vicente Ramm , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry , Christopher D. Cooper

The excess entropy of restricted primitive model electrolytes is calculated using a potential based approach through the symmetric Poisson-Boltzmann and the modified Poisson-Boltzmann theories. The theories are utilized in conjunction with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 S. Lamperski , L. B. Bhuiyan , C. W. Outhwaite , R. Gorniak

This paper presents a re-formulation of the boundary integral method (BIM) for the Debye-Huckel model of molecular and colloidal electrostatics that removes the mathematical singularities that have been accepted as an intrinsic part of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Q. Sun , E. Klaseboer , D. Y. C. Chan

In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated direct-sum boundary integral method to solve the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation. In our method, a well-posed boundary integral formulation is used to ensure the fast convergence of Krylov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Weihua Geng , Ferosh Jacob

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-31 Ariel Abrashkin , David Andelman , Henri Orland

We present the theory and implementation of a Poisson-Boltzmann implicit solvation model for electrolyte solutions. This model can be combined with arbitrary electronic structure methods that provide an accurate charge density of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Christopher J. Stein , John M. Herbert , Martin Head-Gordon

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Lijie Ji , Yanlai Chen , Zhenli Xu

Accurate calculation of electrostatic potential and gradient on the molecular surface is highly desirable for the continuum and hybrid modeling of large scale deformation of biomolecules in solvent. In this article a new numerical method is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 George Borleske , Y. C. Zhou

In this paper, a nonuniform size modified Poisson-Boltzmann ion channel (nuSMPBIC) model is presented as a nonlinear system of an electrostatic potential and multiple ionic concentrations. It mixes nonlinear algebraic equations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Dexuan Xie

This paper describes a trapezoidal quadrature method for the discretization of singular and hypersingular boundary integral operators (BIOs) that arise in solving boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Bowei Wu , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Developing accurate solvers for the Poisson Boltzmann (PB) model is the first step to make the PB model suitable for implicit solvent simulation. Reducing the grid size influence on the performance of the solver benefits to increasing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Bao Wang , Guowei Wei

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

An integral equation method is presented for the 1D steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations modeling ion transport through membrane channels. The differential equations are recast as integral equations using Green's 3rd identity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Zhen Chao , Weihua Geng , Robert Krasny

The modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory of the restricted primitive model double layer is revisited and recast in a fresh, slightly broader perspective. Derivation of relevant equations follow the techniques utilized in the earlier MPB4 and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-05 L. B. Bhuiyan , C. W. Outhwaite

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-10 Cecilia Herrero , Laurent Joly

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-29 M. Baptista , R. Schmitz , B. Duenweg