3.5.6 Bløtekjær's Approach

In contrast to Stratton, Bløtekjær originally proposed the concept of macroscopic relaxation times introducing one relaxation time for each moment equation. The set of weight functions used in this derivation is

$\displaystyle \ensuremath{X}= \left(1, \ensuremath{\ensuremath{\mathitbf{p}}}, ...
...{E}}, \ensuremath{\ensuremath{\mathcal{E}}\ensuremath{\mathitbf{p}}}\right) \,,$ (3.79)

which gives the possibility of a direct comparison to the terms obtained throughout the derivation after Stratton. The assumptions and simplifications are listed below:


Subsections

M. Wagner: Simulation of Thermoelectric Devices