Improving the quality of meshes for the simulation of semiconductor devices using Lepp-based algorithms

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 333-347

  Hitschfeld, N ^a   Villablanca, L ^b   Krause, J ^b   Rivara, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Control volume method; Delaunay meshes; Lepp based algorithms; Non obtuse boundary meshes; Semiconductor device simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FITS AND TOLERANCES; TRIANGULATION;

DELAUNAY MESHES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 0141862291     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.767     Document Type: Article

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