Large time behavior and energy relaxation time limit of the solutions to an energy transport model in semiconductors

In this paper, the global existence and the large time behavior of smooth solutions to the initial boundary value problem for the multi-dimensional energy transport model are studied. It is also proved that the solutions of the problem converge to an isothermal drift–diffusion model as energy relaxation time τ goes to 0 by compactness argument with the help of energy estimates and entropy inequality.  2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.