Energy-transport model for a nondegenerate semiconductor: Convergence of the Hilbert expansion in the linearized case

Asymptotic Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 279-308

  Genieys S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

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