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The present work is motivated by the development of a fast DG based deterministic solver for the extension of the BTE to a system of transport Boltzmann equations for full electronic multi-band transport with intra-band scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Irene M. Gamba , Armando Majorana , Jose A. Morales , Chi-Wang Shu

Fractional calculus provides a rigorous mathematical framework to describe anomalous stochastic processes by generalizing the notion of classical differential equations to their fractional-order counterparts. By introducing the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Ehsan Kharazmi , Mohsen Zayernouri

In this paper we study binary interaction schemes with uncertain parameters for a general class of Boltzmann-type equations with applications in classical gas and aggregation dynamics. We consider deterministic (i.e., a priori averaged) and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Andrea Tosin , Mattia Zanella

The purpose of this work is to incorporate numerically, in a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) solver of a Boltzmann-Poisson model for hot electron transport, an electronic conduction band whose values are obtained by the spherical averaging of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Jose Morales-Escalante , Irene M. Gamba , Yingda Cheng , Armando Majorana , Chi-Wang Shu , James Chelikowsky

Quantum stochastic operator equations are derived for inter-branch exciton and polariton processes caused by acoustic phonon scattering. The use of a fully quantum model combined with these recently developed techniques predicts the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Kinsler

We consider in this paper the mathematical and numerical modelling of reflective boundary conditions (BC) associated to Boltzmann - Poisson systems, including diffusive reflection in addition to specularity, in the context of electron…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Jose A. Morales Escalante , Irene M. Gamba

In [L. Liu and S. Jin, Multiscale Model. Simult., 16, 1085-1114, 2018], spectral convergence and long-time decay of the numerical solution towards the global equilibrium of the stochastic Galerkin approximation for the Boltzmann equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Esther S. Daus , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

A deterministic method is proposed for solving the Boltzmann equation. The method employs a Galerkin discretization of the velocity space and adopts, as trial and test functions, the collocation basis functions based on weights and roots of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

In this paper, we consider the numerical solution of the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with a periodic lattice potential and a random external potential. This is an important model in solid state physics where the randomness is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Zhizhang Wu , Zhongyi Huang

Based on the Hermite expansion of the distribution function, we introduce a Galerkin spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with the realistic inverse-power-law models. A practical algorithm is proposed to evaluate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Yanli Wang , Zhenning Cai

Numerical approximation of the Boltzmann equation is a challenging problem due to its high-dimensional, nonlocal, and nonlinear collision integral. Over the past decade, the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method has become a popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Jingwei Hu , Kunlun Qi , Tong Yang

This paper investigates the mobility of electrons scattering from the coupled system of electrons and longitudinal optical (LO) phonons in n-type GaAs. The Boltzmann equation is solved exactly for low electric fields by an iterative method,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 B. A. Sanborn

We present a consistent method to calculate the probability distribution of soliton parameters in systems with additive noise. Even though a weak noise is considered, we are interested in probabilities of large fluctuations (generally…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Falkovich , I. Kolokolov , V. Lebedev , S. Turitsyn

In this paper we propose a novel numerical approach for the Boltzmann equation with uncertainties. The method combines the efficiency of classical direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) schemes in the phase space together with the accuracy of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

A-B stacked bilayer graphene has massive electron and hole-like excitations with zero gap in the nearest-neighbor hopping approximation. In equilibrium, the quasiparticle occupation approximately follows the usual Fermi-Dirac distribution.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Dung X. Nguyen , Glenn Wagner , Steven H. Simon

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

This work is related to developing entropy-stable positivity-preserving Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods as a computational scheme for Boltzmann-Poisson systems modeling the probability density of collisional electronic transport along…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Jose A. Morales Escalante , Irene M. Gamba

We present a rigorous solution of the Boltzmann equation for the electron-phonon scattering problem in three spatial dimensions in the limit of low temperatures. The different temperature scaling of the various scattering rates turns the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 J. Amarel , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

In this paper we present a numerical method for the Boltzmann equation. It is a spectral discretization in the velocity and a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in physical space. To obtain uniform approximation properties in the mach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

We present a method for linear stability analysis of systems with parametric uncertainty formulated in the stochastic Galerkin framework. Specifically, we assume that for a model partial differential equation, the parameter is given in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Bedřich Sousedík , Kookjin Lee