Energy-transport model for a nondegenerate semiconductor: Convergence of the Hilbert expansion in the linearized case. (English) Zbl 0931.35172
Summary: This paper is concerned with the derivation of an energy-transport model from the Boltzmann equation for a non-degenerate semiconductor with a parabolic band structure. Electron-electron collisions and elastic collisions (i.e., impurity scattering and the “elastic part” of phonon collisions) are retained as leading order terms. Then, a Hilbert expansion leads to an energy-transport model, and a Chapman-Enskog expansion leads to the same energy-transport model if the electric field vanishes. For the case of the Boltzmann equation linearized about a global equilibrium, the convergence of the Hilbert expansion is shown when the electric field vanishes.
MSC:
35Q60 | PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory |
78A35 | Motion of charged particles |
76P05 | Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics |