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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452917903321

Autore

Cai Wei <1962->

Titolo

Computational methods for electromagnetic phenomena : electrostatics in solvation, scattering, and electron transport / / Wei Cai [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-61054-6

1-107-23570-7

1-139-61240-9

1-139-60888-6

1-139-10815-8

1-139-61612-9

1-139-62542-X

1-283-87054-1

1-139-62170-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 444 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

537.01/51

Soggetti

Electromagnetism - Mathematical models

Electrostatics

Electron transport

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Electrostatics in Solvations: 1. Dielectric constant and fluctuation formulae for molecular dynamics; 2. Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatics and analytical approximations; 3. Numerical methods for Poisson-Boltzmann equations; 4. Fast algorithms for long-range interactions; Part II. Electromagnetic Scattering: 5. Maxwell equations, potentials, and physical/artificial boundary conditions; 6. Dyadic Green's functions in layered media; 7. High order methods for surface electromagnetic integral equations; 8. High order hierarchical Nedelec edge elements; 9. Time domain methods -- discontinuous Galerkin method and Yee scheme; 10. Computing scattering in periodic structures and surface plasmons; 11.



Solving Schrödinger equations in waveguides and quantum dots; Part III. Electron Transport: 12. Quantum electron transport in semiconductors; 13. Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) methods for transport; 14. Numerical methods for Wigner quantum transport; 15. Hydrodynamics electron transport and finite difference methods; 16. Transport models in plasma media and numerical methods.

Sommario/riassunto

A unique and comprehensive graduate text and reference on numerical methods for electromagnetic phenomena, from atomistic to continuum scales, in biology, optical-to-micro waves, photonics, nanoelectronics and plasmas. The state-of-the-art numerical methods described include:  • Statistical fluctuation formulae for the dielectric constant  • Particle-Mesh-Ewald, Fast-Multipole-Method and image-based reaction field method for long-range interactions  • High-order singular/hypersingular (Nyström collocation/Galerkin) boundary and volume integral methods in layered media for Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatics, electromagnetic wave scattering and electron density waves in quantum dots  • Absorbing and UPML boundary conditions  • High-order hierarchical Nédélec edge elements  • High-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and Yee finite difference time-domain methods  • Finite element and plane wave frequency-domain methods for periodic structures  • Generalized DG beam propagation method for optical waveguides  • NEGF(Non-equilibrium Green's function) and Wigner kinetic methods for quantum transport  • High-order WENO and Godunov and central schemes for hydrodynamic transport  • Vlasov-Fokker-Planck and PIC and constrained MHD transport in plasmas