Trefftz Functions for Nonlocal Electrostatics

12/11/2020
by   Igor Tsukerman, et al.
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Electrostatic interactions in solvents play a major role in biophysical systems. There is a consensus in the literature that the dielectric response of aqueous solutions is nonlocal: polarization depends on the electric field not only at a given point but in the vicinity of that point as well. This is typically modeled via a convolution of the electric field with an appropriate integral kernel. A primary problem with nonlocal models is high computational cost. A secondary problem is restriction of convolution integrals to the solvent, as opposed to their evaluation over the whole space. The paper develops a computational tool alleviating the "curse of nonlocality" and helping to handle the integration correctly. This tool is Trefftz approximations, which tend to furnish much higher accuracy than traditional polynomial ones. In the paper, Trefftz approximations are developed for problems of nonlocal electrostatics, with the goal of numerically "localizing" the original nonlocal problem. This approach can be extended to nonlocal problems in other areas of computational mathematics, physics and engineering.

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