Electrostatic potential of point charges inside dielectric prolate spheroids

Journal of Electrostatics

Volumn 66, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 549-560

  Deng, Shaozhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatic potential; Hybrid explicit implicit solvent model; Linearized Poisson Boltzmann equation; Poisson equation; Prolate spheroid

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTATICS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOLUTIONS; SOLVENTS;

BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; BULK EFFECTS; DIELECTRIC CAVITIES; DIELECTRIC CONTINUUMS; DIELECTRIC MEDIUMS; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; ELECTROSTATIC PROBLEMS; ELECTROSTATIC THEORIES; EXACT SOLUTIONS; HYBRID EXPLICIT/IMPLICIT SOLVENT MODEL; LINEARIZED POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POINT CHARGES; PROLATE SPHEROID; PROLATE SPHEROIDS; SERIES SOLUTIONS; SOLVENT MOLECULES;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 55949089944     PISSN: 03043886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elstat.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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