Minimization of Electrostatic Free Energy and the Poisson–Boltzmann Equation for Molecular Solvation with Implicit Solvent

DOI10.1137/080712350zbMath1180.35504OpenAlexW1990265247MaRDI QIDQ3648583

Publication date: 27 November 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/080712350

zbMATH Keywords

variational methods ionic concentrations Poisson-Boltzmann equation electrostatic free energy implicit solvent electrostatic potentials nonlinear elliptic interface problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Kinetics in biochemical problems (pharmacokinetics, enzyme kinetics, etc.) (92C45) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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