A WENO-solver for the transients of Boltzmann-Poisson system for semiconductor devices: Performance and comparisons with Monte Carlo methods

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 498-525

  Carrillo, José A ^a   Gamba, Irene M ^b   Majorana, Armando ^c   Shu, Chi Wang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann Poisson system; High order accuracy; Semiconductor devices; WENO scheme

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POISSON EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

BOLTZMANN-POISSON SYSTEM; DETERMINISTICS; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER ORDER ACCURACY; HIGHER-ORDER; MAJORANA; MONTECARLO METHODS; PHASE SPACES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PERFORMANCE; WENO SCHEMES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0037455598     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00032-3     Document Type: Article

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