Variational formulation of particle algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations. - E. G. Evstatiev; Bradley A. Shadwick (J. Comput. Phys., 2013)

Application of the phase space action principle to finite-size particle plasma simulations in the drift-kinetic approximation. - E. G. Evstatiev (Comput. Phys. Commun., 2014)

Noise and error analysis and optimization in particle-based kinetic plasma simulations. - E. G. Evstatiev; John M. Finn; Bradley A. Shadwick; Nicolas W. Hengartner (J. Comput. Phys., 2021)