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A Maxwell solver derived from finite element method with \mathcal{O}(N) computing cost is developed to improve the numerical dispersion properties in relativistic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The correction of the dispersion relation…

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We study the approximation and stability properties of a recently popularized discretization strategy for the speed variable in kinetic equations, based on pseudo spectral collocation on a grid defined by the zeros of a non-standard family…

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In this paper, we develop a structure-preserving discretization of the Lagrangian framework for electromagnetism, combining techniques from variational integrators and discrete differential forms. This leads to a general family of…

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