A numerical study of electro-migration voiding by evolving level set functions on a fixed Cartesian grid

DOI10.1006/jcph.1999.6249zbMath0956.78016OpenAlexW2085426491MaRDI QIDQ1306116

Zhilin Li, Hua-Jian Gao, Hong-Kai Zhao

Publication date: 22 September 1999

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.4/692

zbMATH Keywords

finite difference methodnumerical examplessurface diffusionmoving boundarieselectric currentelectrical fieldelectromigrationfixed Cartesian gridfourth order nonlinear partial differential equationlocal level set methodmetal conducting linemodified immersed interface methodmoving voids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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