Mapped discretization strategies for curvilinear adaptively redistributed grids in semiconductor device modeling

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 365-379

  Pardhanani, Anand L ^a   Carey, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CURVILINEAR ADAPTIVELY REDISTRIBUTED GRIDS; SCHARFETTER-GUMMEL METHOD;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 0033639629     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00179-6     Document Type: Article

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