Massively parallel methods for semiconductor device modelling

DOI10.1007/BF02238289zbMath0861.65111OpenAlexW1481923190MaRDI QIDQ1906679

R. K. Coomer, Ivan G. Graham

Publication date: 29 April 1997

Published in: Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02238289

zbMATH Keywords

Schur complementdomain decompositionfinite element methodsdrift-diffusion equationssemiconductor devicepreconditioned conjugate gradient methodsmassively parallel computationGummel's method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Numerical computation of matrix norms, conditioning, scaling (65F35) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)

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