Transport Phenomena and Kinetic Theory: Applications to Gases, Semiconductors, Photons, and Biological Systems (Hardcover)

Preface List of Contributors Part I. Analytic Aspects of the Boltzmann Equation Rigorous Results for Conservation Equations and Trend to Equilibrium in Space-Inhomogeneous Kinetic Theory / Carlo Cercignani Results on Optimal Rate of Convergence to Equilibrium for Spatially Homogeneous Maxwellian Gases / Ester Gabetta Nonresonant Velocity Averaging and the Vlasov?Maxwell System / Francois Golse Part II. Modeling Applications, Inverse and Computational Problems in Quantum Kinetic Theory Multiband Quantum Transport Models for Semiconductor Devices / Luigi Barletti, Lucio Demeio, Giovanni Frosali Optimization Models for Semiconductor Dopant Profiling / Martin Burger, Michael Hinze, Rene Pinnau Inverse Problems for Semiconductors: Models and Methods / A. Leitao, P.A. Markowich, and J.P. Zubelli Deterministic Kinetic Solvers for Charged Particle Transport in Semiconductor Devices / M.J. Caceres, J.A. Carrillo, I.M. Gamba, A. Majorana, and C.-W. Shu Part III. Miscellaneous Applications in Physics and Natural Sciences Methods and Tools of Mathematical Kinetic Theory Towards Modelling Complex Biological Systems / Nicola Bellomo, Abdelghani Bellouquid, and Marcello Delitala Kinetic Modelling of Late Stages of Phase Separation / Guido Manzi and Rossana Marra Ground States and Dynamics of Rotating Bose?Einstein Condensates / Weizhu Bao Two Inverse Problems in Photon Transport Theory: Evaluation of a Time-Dependent Source and of a Time-Dependent Cross-Section / Aldo Belleni-Morante