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

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.08.028MaRDI QIDQ349643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitri Priimak

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

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

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)

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.

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Uses Software

• Sailfish
• CUDA

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