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In this paper, we present results of a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme applied to deterministic computations of the transients for the Boltzmann-Poisson system describing electron transport in semiconductor devices. The collisional term…
Plasmonic nanostructures significantly improve the performance of photoconductive devices (PCDs) in generating terahertz radiation. However, they are geometrically intricate and result in complicated electromagnetic (EM) field and carrier…
Solving real-world nonlinear semiconductor device problems modeled by the drift-diffusion equations coupled with the Poisson equation (also known as the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations) necessitates an accurate and efficient numerical…
We present discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving a first-order semi-linear hyperbolic system, which was originally proposed as a continuum model for a one-dimensional dimer lattice of topological resonators. We examine the…
Electron devices based on graphene have lately received a considerable interest; in fact, they could represent the ultimate miniaturization, since the active area is only one atom tick. However, the gapless dispersion relation of graphene…
The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is an established method for computing approximate solutions of partial differential equations in many applications. Unlike continuous finite elements, in DG methods, numerical fluxes are used to…
Incorporation of plasmonic nanostructures in the design of photoconductive devices (PCDs) has significantly improved their optical-to-terahertz conversion efficiency. However, this improvement comes at the cost of increased complexity for…
We present a new line-based discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization scheme for first- and second-order systems of partial differential equations. The scheme is based on fully unstructured meshes of quadrilateral or hexahedral elements,…
In this paper, a variant of discretization of the van Roosbroeck equations in the equilibrium state with the Composite Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the rectangular domain is discussed. It is based on Symmetric Interior Penalty Galerkin…
In this paper, we develop a sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for transport equations and applied it to kinetic simulations. The method uses the weak formulations of traditional Runge-Kutta DG (RKDG) schemes for hyperbolic…
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have a long history in computational physics and engineering to approximate solutions of partial differential equations due to their high-order accuracy and geometric flexibility. However, DG is not…
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have enjoyed considerable success because they are both flexible and robust: They allow arbitrary unstructured geometries and easy control of…
In this paper, we develop an asymptotic-preserving and positivity-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving the semiconductor Boltzmann equation in the diffusive scaling. We first formulate the diffusive relaxation system…
In this paper, we construct an efficient numerical scheme for full-potential electronic structure calculations of periodic systems. In this scheme, the computational domain is decomposed into a set of atomic spheres and an interstitial…
The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is conservative, lends itself well to parallelization, and is high-order accurate due to its close affinity with the theory of quadrature and orthogonal polynomials. When applied with an…
Hyperbolic-parabolic partial differential equations are widely used for the modeling of complex, multiscale problems. High-order methods such as the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme are attractive candidates for their numerical…
In this study, three-dimensional simulations of a reacting hydrogen jet in supersonic crossflow using a structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulation are examined. The hydrogen jet, with a momentum flux ratio of five, is…
A new high order accurate staggered semi-implicit space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is presented for the simulation of viscous incompressible flows on unstructured triangular grids in two space dimensions. The staggered DG…
In this work, we propose an accurate, robust, and stable discretization of the gamma-based compressible multicomponent model by Shyue [J. Comput. Phys., 142 (1998), 208-242] where each component follows a stiffened gas equation of state…
Nishikawa (2007) proposed to reformulate the classical Poisson equation as a steady state problem for a linear hyperbolic system. This results in optimal error estimates for both the solution of the elliptic equation and its gradient.…