A numerical study of electro-migration voiding by evolving level set functions on a fixed cartesian grid

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 281-304

  Li, Zhilin ^a   Zhao, Hongkai ^b   Gao, Huajian ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CARTESIAN GRID; ELECTRICAL FIELD; ELECTRO MIGRATION; FOURTH-ORDER; LEVEL-SET FUNCTION; MOVING BOUNDARIES; NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR TERMS; NONLOCAL TERM; NUMERICAL CHALLENGES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0001046083     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6249     Document Type: Article

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