Solution of Poisson Equation using Isogeometric Formulation

Multigrid solution of the Poisson - Boltzmann equation

A multigrid method is presented for the numerical solution of the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation arising in molecular biophysics. The equation is discretized with the finite volume method, and the numerical solution of the discrete equations is accomplished with multiple grid techniques originally developed for two-dimensional interface problems occurring in reactor physics. A detailed a...

Condition number study of graph theory based preconditioners for isogeometric discretization of Poisson equation

We study the preconditioning of the stiffness matrix which arises from the discretization of the Poisson equation using IsoGeometric Method (IGM). A study of condition number of stiffness matrices, resulting from NURBS based IGM, suggests that novel preconditioning techniques are needed for fast and efficient iterative solvers for the resulting linear system. As a first step towards preconditio...

Unstructured Volume - Agglomeration MG : Solution of the Poisson Equation

Efficient solution technique for solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation

The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation has been extensively used to analyze the energetics and structure of proteins and other significant biomolecules immersed in electrolyte media. A new highly efficient approach for solving PB-type equations that allows for the modeling of many-atoms structures such as encountered in cell biology, virology, and nanotechnology is presented. We accomplish these e...

The Poisson - Boltzmann Equation Analysis and Multilevel Numerical Solution

We consider the numerical solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE), a three-dimensional second order nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation arising in biophysics. This problem has several interesting features impacting numerical algorithms, including discontinuous coefficients representing material interfaces, rapid nonlinearities, and three spatial dimensions. Similar equatio...