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Heterogeneous computing environments combining CPU and GPU resources provide a great boost to large-scale scientific computing applications. Code generation utilities that partition the work into CPU and GPU tasks while considering data…

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This research addresses the numerical simulation of the Boltzmann transport equation for semiconductor devices by proposing a multidimensional self-adaptive numerical simulation framework. This framework is applied to two important…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Zeyu Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zhigang Song , Qing Fang

In this paper we solve the Boltzmann transport equation using AI libraries. The reason why this is attractive is because it enables one to use the highly optimised software within AI libraries, enabling one to run on different computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 T. R. F. Phillips , C. E. Heaney , C. Boyang , A. G. Buchan , C. C. Pain

A semiclassical model of charge transport in a semiconductor superlattice is solved, using moments in the wavenumber direction and finite elements in the spatial direction (first order). The selection of numerical methods guarantees the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-27 Yossi Farjoun , Luis L. Bonilla

The paper considers a coupled system of linear Boltzmann transport equations (BTE), and its Continuous Slowing Down Approximation (CSDA). This system can be used to model the relevant transport of particles used e.g. in dose calculation in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-06 J. Tervo , P. Kokkonen , M. Frank , M. Herty

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are being used in many areas of physics, since the performance versus cost is very attractive. The GPUs can be addressed by CUDA which is a NVIDIA's parallel computing architecture. It enables dramatic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-10-12 Nuno Cardoso , Marco Cardoso , Pedro Bicudo

The Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) with electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions computed from first principles is widely used to study electronic transport and nonequilibrium dynamics in materials. Calculating the e-ph collision integral is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Shiyu Peng , Donnie Pinkston , Jia Yao , Sergei Kliavinek , Ivan Maliyov , Marco Bernardi

Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Wacker , A. -P. Jauho , S. Rott , A. Markus , P. Binder , G. H. D"ohler

Semi-Lagrangian (SL) schemes are highly efficient for simulating transport equations and are widely used across various applications. Despite their success, designing genuinely multi-dimensional and conservative SL schemes remains a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Yongsheng Chen , Wei Guo , Xinghui Zhong

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a cornerstone of classical scientific computing, and there is growing interest in whether quantum computers can accelerate such simulations. To date, the existing proposals for fault-tolerant quantum…

We show how to accelerate the direct solution of the Boltzmann equation using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In order to fully exploit the computational power of the GPU, we choose a method of solution which combines a finite difference…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 Aldo Frezzotti , Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

A high fidelity flow simulation for complex geometries for high Reynolds number ($Re$) flow is still very challenging, which requires more powerful computational capability of HPC system. However, the development of HPC with traditional CPU…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 Chuangchao Ye , Pengjunyi Zhang , Rui Yan , Dejun Sun , Zhenhua Wan

We have coded a Boltzmann solver based on a finite difference scheme (S_N method) aiming at calculations of neutrino transport in type II supernovae. Close comparison between the Boltzmann solver and a Monte Carlo transport code has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shoichi Yamada , Hans-Thomas Janka , Hideyuki Suzuki

We present a general method for calculating coherent electronic transport in quantum wires and tunnel junctions. It is based upon a real space high order finite difference representation of the single particle Hamiltonian and wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr A. Khomyakov , Geert Brocks

A scheme is presented for accurately propagating the gravitational field constraints in finite difference implementations of numerical relativity. The method is based on similar techniques used in astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David L. Meier

Numerical codes using the Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM) for simulating one- or two-phase flows are widely compiled and run on graphical process units. However, those computational units necessitate to re-write the program by using a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Werner Verdier , Pierre Kestener , Alain Cartalade

We present a finite difference method to solve a new type of nonlocal hydrodynamic equations that arise in the theory of spatially inhomogeneous Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices. The hydrodynamic equations describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 M. Álvaro , M. Carretero , L. L. Bonilla

In this paper we present a methodology for data accesses when solving batches of Tridiagonal and Pentadiagonal matrices that all share the same left-hand-side (LHS) matrix. The intended application is to the numerical solution of Partial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Enda Carroll , Andrew Gloster , Miguel D. Bustamante , Lennon Ó' Náraigh

This paper presents hybrid numerical techniques for solving the Boltzmann transport equation formulated by means of low-order equations for angular moments of the angular flux. The moment equations are derived by the projection operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Vincent N. Novellino , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

We investigate the transport behavior of finite modular quantum systems. Such systems have recently been analyzed by different methods. These approaches indicate diffusive behavior even and especially for finite systems. Inspired by these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mehmet Kadiroglu , Jochen Gemmer
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