Weak solutions to a one-dimensional hydrodynamic model of two carrier types for semiconductors

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 947-963

  Fang, Weifu ^a   Ito, Kazufumi ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensated compactness; Hydrodynamic model for semiconductors; Hyperbolic systems; Viscosity method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DAMPING; ELECTRONS; ESTIMATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; VISCOSITY;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPENSATED COMPACTNESS; ENERGY CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; VISCOSITY METHOD; WEAK SOLUTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0031103820     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0362-546X(95)00189-3     Document Type: Article

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