A fast implicit solver for semiconductor models in one space dimension

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2020.109567MaRDI QIDQ782015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Paul Laiu, Zheng Chen, Cory D. Hauck

Publication date 21 July 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04174

zbMATH Keywords

domain decompositionpreconditionersynthetic accelerationBoltzmann-Poisson systemsdrift-diffusion limitsemiconductor Boltzmann equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M55) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) PDEs in connection with semiconductor devices (35Q81)

Abstract: Several different approaches are proposed for solving fully implicit discretizations of a simplified Boltzmann-Poisson system with a linear relaxation-type collision kernel. This system models the evolution of free electrons in semiconductor devices under a low-density assumption. At each implicit time step, the discretized system is formulated as a fixed-point problem, which can then be solved with a variety of methods. A key algorithmic component in all the approaches considered here is a recently developed sweeping algorithm for Vlasov-Poisson systems. A synthetic acceleration scheme has been implemented to accelerate the convergence of iterative solvers by using the solution to a drift-diffusion equation as a preconditioner. The performance of four iterative solvers and their accelerated variants has been compared on problems modeling semiconductor devices with various electron mean-free-path.

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• RODAS
• Anderson

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