Computational macroscopic approximations to the one-dimensional relaxation-time kinetic system for semiconductors

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 289-306

  Carrillo, Jose A ^a   Gamba, Irene M ^a   Shu, Chi Wang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DECOMPOSITION; INTERDIFFUSION (SOLIDS); KINETIC THEORY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MULTI-FLUID DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL RELAXATION-TIME KINETIC SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 0034315478     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00139-1     Document Type: Article

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