Abstract
This paper describes an electromagnetic field analogue of the classical Brayton–Moser formulation. It is shown that Maxwell's curl equations constitute a pseudo-gradient system with respect to a single electromagnetic mixed-potential functional and a metric defined by the constitutive relations of the fields. Besides its use for the generation of power-based Lyapunov functionals for stability analysis and Poynting-like flow balances, the electromagnetic mixed-potential formulation suggests a family of alternative variational principles. This yields a novel Lagrangian boundary control system formulation admitting nonzero energy flow through the boundary. The corresponding symplectic Hamiltonian system is still associated with the total electromagnetic field energy.
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