Electrostatic potential of point charges inside dielectric prolate spheroids |
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Authors: | Shaozhong Deng |
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Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA |
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Abstract: | The exact solution to an electrostatic problem of finding the electric potential of point charges inside a dielectric prolate spheroid is discussed in this note by using the classical electrostatic theory, where the prolate spheroid is embedded in a dissimilar dielectric medium. Such a problem may find its application in hybrid solvent biomolecular simulations, in which biomolecules and a part of solvent molecules within a dielectric cavity are explicitly modeled while a surrounding dielectric continuum is used to model bulk effects of the solvent beyond the cavity. Numerical experiments have demonstrated the convergence of the proposed series solutions. |
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