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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

The size-modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation (SMPBE) is one important variant of the popular dielectric model, the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE), to reflect ionic size effects in the prediction of electrostatics for a biomolecule in an…

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This paper presents an efficient finite element iterative method for solving a nonuniform size-modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck ion channel (SMPNPIC) model, along with a SMPNPIC program package that works for an ion channel protein with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Dexuan Xie

We present a 3D finite element solver for the nonlinear Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations for electrodiffusion, coupled to the Stokes system of fluid dynamics. The model serves as a building block for the simulation of macromolecule…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Gregor Mitscha-Baude , Andreas Buttinger-Kreuzhuber , Gerhard Tulzer , Clemens Heitzinger

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 Poisson--Boltzmann equation is widely used to model electrostatics in molecular systems. Available software packages solve it using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods, where the latter is attractive due to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Michal Bosy , Matthew W. Scroggs , Timo Betcke , Erik Burman , Christopher D. Cooper

This work proposes a fast iterative method for local steric Poisson--Boltzmann (PB) theories, in which the electrostatic potential is governed by the Poisson's equation and ionic concentrations satisfy equilibrium conditions. To present the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Minhong Chen , Wei Dou , Shenggao Zhou

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

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a relevant partial differential equation commonly used in biophysical applications to estimate the electrostatic energy of biomolecular systems immersed in electrolytic solutions. A conventional mean…

A widely used electrostatics model in the biomolecular modeling community, the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, along with its finite element approximation, are analyzed in this paper. A regularized Poisson-Boltzmann equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is an implicit solvent continuum model for calculating the electrostatic potential and energies of ionic solvated biomolecules. However, its numerical solution remains a significant challenge due strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Cleophas Kweyu , Venera Khoromskaia , Boris Khoromskij , Matthias Stein , Peter Benner

The Poisson-Boltzmann model is an effective and popular approach for modeling solvated biomolecules in continuum solvent with dissolved electrolytes. In this paper, we report our recent work in developing a Galerkin boundary integral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jiahui Chen , Johannes Tausch , Weihua Geng

The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model governs the electrostatics of solvated biomolecules, i.e., potential, field, energy, and force. These quantities can provide useful information about protein properties, functions, and dynamics. By…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Xin Yang , Elyssa Sliheet , Reece Iriye , Daniel Reynolds , Weihua Geng

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a fundamental implicit solvent continuum model for calculating the electrostatic potential of large ionic solvated biomolecules. However, its numerical solution encounters severe challenges arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Cleophas Kweyu , Lihong Feng , Matthias Stein , Peter Benner

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Cleophas Kweyu , Lihong Feng , Matthias Stein , Peter Benner

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

The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is one of the most important theoretical models describing charged systems continuously. However, it suffers from neglecting ion correlations, which hinders its applicability to more general charged systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Mao Su , Yanting Wang

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

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
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