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A rigorous mathematical framework is provided for a substructuring-based domain-decomposition approach for nonlocal problems that feature interactions between points separated by a finite distance. Here, by substructuring it is meant that a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Giacomo Capodaglio , Marta D'Elia , Max Gunzburger , Pavel Bochev , Manuel Klar , Christian Vollmann

Poisson-Boltzmann theory is the cornerstone for soft matter electrostatics. We provide novel exact analytical solutions to this non-linear mean-field approach, for the diffuse layer of ions in the vicinity of a planar or a cylindrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-29 L. Samaj , E. Trizac

We investigate the application of the additive overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition method as a preconditioner for the large sparse linear systems arising in graph-based nonlinear least-squares problems, specifically the pose-graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Stephan Köhler , Oliver Rheinbach , Yue Xiang Tee , Sebastian Zug

Neural networks are powerful tools for approximating high dimensional data that have been used in many contexts, including solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). We describe a solver for multiscale fully nonlinear elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Shi Chen , Zhiyan Ding , Qin Li , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper, we propose a domain decomposition method for multiscale second order elliptic partial differential equations with highly varying coefficients. The method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin formulation. We present both a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Yunfei Ma , Petter Bjorstad , Talal Rahman , Xuejun Xu

Domain decomposition (DD) methods are a natural way to take advantage of parallel computers when solving large scale linear systems. Their scalability depends on the design of the coarse space used in the two-level method. The analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Frédéric Nataf , Emile Parolin

We study the boundary layer solution to singular perturbation problems involving Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) type equations with a small parameter $\epsilon$ in general bounded smooth domains (including multiply connected domains) under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Jhih-Hong Lyu , Tai-Chia Lin

We examine the use of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann coarse space within an additive Schwarz method to solve the Helmholtz equation in 2D. In particular, we focus on the selection of how many eigenfunctions should go into the coarse space. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Niall Bootland , Victorita Dolean

In this article, we analyse the convergence behaviour and scalability properties of the one-level Parallel Schwarz method (PSM) for domain decomposition problems in which the boundaries of many subdomains lie in the interior of the global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Gabriele Ciaramella , Muhammad Hassan , Benjamin Stamm

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

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is widely used to model molecular electrostatics; however, it is usually solved in linearised form because the sinh nonlinearity is challenging, limiting its applicability in highly charged systems such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Mauricio Guerrero-Montero , Michal Bosy , Christopher D. Cooper

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

We consider the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation in the context of electrostatic models for a biological macromolecule, embedded in a bounded domain containing a solution of an arbitrary number of ionic species which is not necessarily…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-26 José A. Iglesias , Svetoslav Nakov

For linear problems, domain decomposition methods can be used directly as iterative solvers, but also as preconditioners for Krylov methods. In practice, Krylov acceleration is almost always used, since the Krylov method finds a much better…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-17 V. Dolean , M. J. Gander , F. Kwok , R. Masson , W. Kheriji

This paper deals with two domain decomposition methods for two dimensional linear Schr{\"o}dinger equation, the Schwarz waveform relaxation method and the domain decomposition in space method. After presenting the classical algorithms, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Christophe Besse , Feng Xing

The nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (NPBE) is an elliptic partial differential equation used in applications such as protein interactions and biophysical chemistry (among many others). It describes the nonlinear electrostatic potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Trevor Norton , Jie Xu , Brian Choi , Mark Kon , Julio Enrique Castrillón-Candás

The reduction of computational costs in the numerical solution of nonstationary problems is achieved through splitting schemes. In this case, solving a set of less computationally complex problems provides the transition to a new level in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Petr N. Vabishchevich

We study non-local exchange and scattering operators arising in domain decomposition algorithms for solving elliptic problems on domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Motivated by recent formulations of the Optimized Schwarz Method introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Thomas Beck , Yaiza Canzani , Jeremy L. Marzuola

We extend our previous study of surface tension of ionic solutions and apply it to the case of acids (and salts) with strong ion-surface interactions. These ion-surface interactions yield a non-linear boundary condition with an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-17 Tomer Markovich , David Andelman , Rudi Podgornik

In this article we present the first results on domain decomposition methods for nonlocal operators. We present a nonlocal variational formulation for these operators and establish the well-posedness of associated boundary value problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Burak Aksoylu , Michael L. Parks