Finite difference numerical method for the superlattice Boltzmann transport equation and case comparison of CPU(C) and GPU(CUDA) implementations

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.08.028zbMATH Open1349.82106arXiv1401.6047OpenAlexW1994967046MaRDI QIDQ349643FDOQ349643

Authors: Dmitri Priimak 

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Abstract: We present a finite difference numerical algorithm for solving two dimensional spatially homogeneous Boltzmann transport equation which describes electron transport in a semiconductor superlattice subject to crossed time dependent electric and constant magnetic fields. The algorithm is implemented both in C language targeted to CPU and in CUDA C language targeted to commodity NVidia GPU. We compare performances and merits of one implementation versus another and discuss various software optimization techniques.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6047

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zbMATH Keywords

finite difference methodBoltzmann equationGPUcudasuperlattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to numerical analysis (65-04) Numerical algorithms for specific classes of architectures (65Y10)

Cites Work

• Sailfish: a flexible multi-GPU implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method
• Geometric integration for particle accelerators
• Recent progress in the theory and application of symplectic integrators
• Solving the Boltzmann equation on GPUs
• An introduction to Monte Carlo methods for the Boltzmann equation
• Numerical method for hydrodynamic modulation equations describing Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices
• Semiconductor superlattices: a model system for nonlinear transport
• A practical method for numerical evaluation of solutions of partial differential equations of the heat-conduction type. (Reprint)

Uses Software

• CUDA
• Sailfish

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