Patricio Farrell
Research Group Leader
Weierstrass Institute Berlin
Weierstrass Institute Berlin
0000-0001-9969-6615
CV
- Research Group Leader, WIAS Berlin
- Invited Researcher positions at SISSA, Trieste and INRIA Lille
- Visiting Professor, Hamburg University of Technology
- Research Associate, WIAS Berlin
- PhD, University of Oxford
- Diplom, University of Hamburg and University of Bath (six months)
Grants and Activities
- Research group leader Numerics for innovative semiconductor devices (€1,000,000)
- PI within MATH+ projects Electro-Mechanical Coupling for Semiconductor Devices (€140,000) and Understanding doping variations in silicon crystals (€70,000)
- ECMI special interest group Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in Electrical Engineering
- Coupling the atomistic with the continuous (with researchers from Tyndall Institute, Ireland)
- Analyzing pure spin currents in semiconductors (with researchers from Politecnico di Milano)
- ECMI, SIAM and SIAM CSE member
Research
My research areas lie in numerical analysis, scientific computing and modeling, in particular, focusing on the numerical solution of PDEs, semiconductor problems and meshfree methods.Numerical solution of nonlinear PDEs
- Finite volume schemes for convection-dominated problems
- Complete flux and Scharfetter-Gummel schemes for nonlinear diffusion
- Physics preserving methods
Semiconductor simulation
- Charge transport models
- Drift diffusion simulation tool ddfermi
- Applications such as bent nanowires, perovskites, spintronics and quantum wells
Meshfree methods
- RBF collocation and interpolation
- Convergence and stability for multilevel methods
- Anisotropic (surface) mesh improvement