Numerical method for kinetic semiconductor equations in the drift-diffusion limit

SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1696-1712

  Klar, Axel ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; DRIFT DIFFUSION LIMIT; KINETIC SEMICONDUCTOR EQUATIONS; MEAN FREE PATHS; MOMENT EXPANSION METHOD; VELOCITY DISCRETIZATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0033296722     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827597319258     Document Type: Article

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