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Highly oscillatory integrals of composite type arise in electronic engineering and their calculations is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose two Gaussian quadrature rules for computing such integrals. The first one is…
A variational method is used to derive a self-consistent macro-particle model for relativistic electromagnetic kinetic plasma simulations. Extending earlier work [E. G. Evstatiev and B. A. Shadwick, J. Comput. Phys., vol. 245, pp. 376-398,…
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Error estimates with optimal convergence orders are proved for a stabilized Lagrange-Galerkin scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations. The scheme is a combination of Lagrange-Galerkin method and Brezzi-Pitkaranta's stabilization method. It…
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