Entropic discretization of a quantum drift-diffusion model

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1828-1849

  Gallego, Samy ^a   Méhats, Florian ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Convex minimization; Entropic scheme; Quantum drift diffusion; Schr dinger Poisson

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVEX MINIMIZATION; ENTROPIC SCHEME; QUANTUM DRIFT-DIFFUSION; SCHRÖDINGER-POISSON;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33646388746     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040610556     Document Type: Article

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