Point charges optimally placed to represent the multipole expansion of charge distributions.

We propose an approach for approximating electrostatic charge distributions with a small number of point charges to optimally represent the original charge distribution. By construction, the proposed optimal point charge approximation (OPCA) retains many of the useful properties of point multipole e...

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Main Authors: Ramu Anandakrishnan, Charles Baker, Saeed Izadi, Alexey V Onufriev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3701554?pdf=render