[Getdp] finite-volume for semiconductor equations

Christophe Geuzaine geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu
Tue Jul 20 19:23:57 CEST 2004


Fabian Dortu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to implement "semiconductor equations" (poisson equation + 
> drift-diffusion for electrons and holes) with getdp. In literature, I 
> found these equations are difficult to solve by Finite Elements but 
> quite easy with the box method (=finite volumes) using the 
> Sharfetter-Gummel discretization.
> I think getdp can be used with finite-volume but I don't know how to do 
> because I didn't find any example on it.

Unfortunately (?), GetDP does not support finite-volume-type schemes...

Best,

Christophe

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