A nonconforming exponentially fitted finite element method for two-dimensional drift-diffusion models in semiconductors

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-150

  Sacco, Riccardo ^a   Gatti, Emilio ^a   Gotusso, Laura ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advection diffusion equations; Exponential fitting; Nonconforming finite elements; Semiconductors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038595335     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2426(199903)15:2<133::AID-NUM1>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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