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Strong discontinuities for the 2-D MEP hydrodynamical model of charge transport in semiconductors

Author(s): A. M. Blokhin
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 66 (2008), 359-377.
MSC (2000): Primary 76X05; Secondary 35B35, 35Q35, 82D37
Posted: February 29, 2008
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Abstract: For the balance equations of charge transport in semiconductors based on the maximum entropy principle (see Anile and Romano (1999) and Romano (2000)), we derive and study the Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions.


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A. M. Blokhin
Affiliation: Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

PII: S0033-569X-08-01081-3
Received by editor(s): November 11, 2006
Posted: February 29, 2008
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, Brown University


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