An asymptotic-preserving scheme for the semiconductor Boltzmann equation toward the energy-transport limit

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.10.050zbMATH Open1351.78056arXiv1309.1330OpenAlexW2038756469MaRDI QIDQ728812FDOQ728812

Authors: Jingwei Hu, Li Wang 

Publication date: 20 December 2016

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

Abstract: We design an asymptotic-preserving scheme for the semiconductor Boltzmann equation which leads to an energy-transport system for electron mass and internal energy as mean free path goes to zero. To overcome the stiffness induced by the convection terms, we adopt an even-odd decomposition to formulate the equation into a diffusive relaxation system. New difficulty arises in the two-scale stiff collision terms, whereas the simple BGK penalization does not work well to drive the solution to the correct limit. We propose a clever variant of it by introducing a threshold on the stiffer collision term such that the evolution of the solution resembles a Hilbert expansion at the continuous level. Formal asymptotic analysis and numerical results are presented to illustrate the efficiency and accuracy of the new scheme.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1330

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic-preserving schemeenergy-transport systemfast spectral methodsemiconductor Boltzmann equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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