Existence of bounded discrete steady-state solutions of the van roosbroeck system on boundary conforming delaunay grids

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1347-1362

  Gartner, K ^a  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delaunay grids; Discrete bounded solutions; Discrete weak maximum principle; Reaction diffusion systems

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BOUNDED SOLUTION; CARRIERS TRANSPORT; DELAUNAY; DELAUNAY GRID; DISCRETE BOUNDED SOLUTION; DISCRETE WEAK MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; DRIFT-DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS; STEADY STATE SOLUTION;

MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

EID: 67649525204     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070710950     Document Type: Article

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