Nonlinear nonviscous hydrodynamical models for charge transport in the framework of extended thermodynamic methods

This paper develops a procedure, based on methods of extended thermodynamics, to design nonlinear hydrodynamical models for charge transport in metals or in semiconductors, neglecting viscous phenomena. Models obtained in this way allow the study of the motion of electric charges in the presence of arbitrary external electric fields and may be useful when one wishes to study phenomena in a neighborhood of a stationary nonequilibrium process: indeed, the drift velocity of the charge gas with respect to the crystal lattice is not regarded as a small parameter.