Discontinuous Galerkin deterministic solvers for a Boltzmann-Poisson model of hot electron transport by averaged empirical pseudopotential band structures

DOI10.1016/j.cma.2017.03.003zbMath1439.82062arXiv1512.05403MaRDI QIDQ2309885

Chi-Wang Shu, Yingda Cheng, Armando Majorana, James R. Chelikowsky, Irene Martínez Gamba, José A. Morales Escalante

Publication date: 6 April 2020

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05403

zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous Galerkin schemes; Boltzmann-Poisson systems; deterministic numerical methods; semiconductor nano-scale devices; statistical hot electron transport; empirical pseudopotential method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

45K05: Integro-partial differential equations

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

82C70: Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics

82M10: Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in statistical mechanics

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