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The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to problems across plasma physics including plasma based…
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We present a new, high-performance coupled electrodynamics-micromagnetics solver for full physical modeling of signals in microelectronic circuitry. The overall strategy couples a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) approach for Maxwell's…
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We present a mimetic finite-difference approach for solving Maxwell's equations in one and two spatial dimensions. After introducing the governing equations and the classical Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, we describe mimetic…
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