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Variational Integrators for Maxwell's Equations with Sources

Abstract

In recent years, two important techniques for geometric numerical discretization have been developed. In computational electromagnetics, spatial discretization has been improved by the use of mixed finite elements and discrete differential forms. Simultaneously, the dynamical systems and mechanics communities have developed structure-preserving time integrators, notably variational integrators that are constructed from a Lagrangian action principle. Here, we discuss how to combine these two frameworks to develop variational spacetime integrators for Maxwell's equations. Extending our previous work, which first introduced this variational perspective for Maxwell's equations without sources, we also show here how to incorporate free sources of charge and current.

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© 2008 The Electromagnetics Academy. Our research was partially supported by a Betty and Gordon Moore fellowship at Caltech, NSF grants CCR-0133983 and DMS-0453145 and DOE contract DE-FG02-04ER25657, and by NSF grant CCF-0528101. We gratefully acknowledge these sponsors for their support of this work.

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