A general framework for structure-preserving particle approximations to Vlasov-Maxwell equations

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• Martin Campos-Pinto (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)
• Monday 25 April 2022, 11:15-12:15
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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FKTW03 - Frontiers in kinetic equations for plasmas and collective behaviour

Variational discretizations are known for preserving key physical invariants in a natural way, leading to long-time stability properties. In this talk I will present a discrete action principle for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations that applies in a general structure-preserving discrete framework. In this framework the finite-dimensional electromagnetic potentials and fields are represented in a discrete de Rham sequence involving general Finite Element spaces, and the particle-field coupling is represented by a set of projection operators that commute with the differential operators. One application of this approach is a new variational spectral PIC method that has a discrete Hamiltonian structure and relies on particle-field coupling techniques very similar to those encountered in standard PIC schemes.

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