The geometry behind numerical solvers of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1032-1050

  Shi, Xinwei ^a   Koehl, Patrice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomolecular modeling; Finite difference methods; Finite element methods; Mesh generation; Poisson Boltzmann equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849126646     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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