A mixed spectral-difference method for the steady state Boltzmann-Poisson system

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-89

  Ringhofer, Christian ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Finite differences; Galerkin methods

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHONONS; POISSON EQUATION;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CONSERVATION LAWS; DISCRETIZATION METHOD; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCE METHOD;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 1842563943     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003614290138958X     Document Type: Article

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