A hydrodynamical model for covalent semiconductors with a generalized energy dispersion relation

DOI10.1017/S0956792514000011zbMath1307.78006OpenAlexW2329832822MaRDI QIDQ2878027

Vittorio Romano, Rosa Claudia Torcasio, Giuseppe Alì, Giovanni Mascali

Publication date: 28 August 2014

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956792514000011

zbMATH Keywords

compound semiconductorsmaximum entropy principle, energy dispersion relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Boltzmann equations (35Q20)

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