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The bulk propagation speed of GeV-energy cosmic rays is limited by frequent scattering off hydromagnetic waves. Most galaxy evolution simulations that account for this confinement assume the gas is fully ionized and cosmic rays are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Chad Bustard , Ellen G. Zweibel

Anomalous transport processes in which the variance of the distance travelled does not necessarily increase linearly with time are modelled using the formalism of continuous time random walks. We compute particle propagators which have the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 B. R. Ragot , J. G. Kirk

We describe an exact and highly efficient numerical algorithm for solving a special but important class of convection-diffusion equations. These equations occur in many problems in physics, chemistry, or biology, and they are usually hard…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Narain Karedla , Jan Christoph Thiele , Ingo Gregor , Jörg Enderlein

Fractional differential approach to cosmic ray physics problems is discussed. A short review in this field is given, some results are represented, analyzed and criticized. A new model called the bounded anomalous diffusion model is offered.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Vladimir V. Uchaikin , Renat T. Sibatov

In weakly collisional, strongly magnetised plasmas such as the intracluster medium (ICM), hot accretion flows and the solar corona, the transport of heat and momentum occurs primarily along magnetic field lines. In this paper we present a…

Possible formulations of the problem of cosmic rays acceleration in the interstellar galactic medium are considered with the use of fractional differential equations. The applied technique has been physically justified. A Fermi result has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-19 V. V. Uchaikin

The arrival directions of TeV-PeV cosmic rays are remarkably uniform due to the isotropization of their directions by scattering on turbulent magnetic fields. Small anisotropies can exist in standard diffusion models, however, only on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Marco Kuhlen , Vo Hong Minh Phan , Philipp Mertsch

A cosmological hydrodynamic code is described, which includes a routine to compute cosmic ray acceleration and transport in a simplified way. The routine was designed to follow explicitly diffusive acceleration at shocks, and second-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dongsu Ryu , Francesco Miniati , Tom W. Jones , Hyesung Kang

Cosmic ray propagation in the Milky Way and other galaxies is largely diffusive, with mean free path determined primarily by pitch angle scattering from hydromagnetic waves with wavelength of order the cosmic ray gyroradius. In the theory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Ellen G. Zweibel

Shortfalls in cosmic ray (CR) propagation models obscure the CR sources and acceleration mechanisms. This problem became particularly obvious after the Fermi, Pamela, and AMS-02 have discovered the electron/positron and $p/$He spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-09 Mikhail Malkov

The measurement of large scale anisotropies in cosmic ray arrival directions is generally performed through harmonic analyses of the right ascension distribution as a function of energy. These measurements are challenging due to the small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-29 Olivier Deligny , Francesco Salamida

We study the influence of diffusion on NMR experiments when the molecules undergo random motion under the influence of a force field, and place special emphasis on parabolic (Hookean) potentials. To this end, the problem is studied using…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Cem Yolcu , Muhammet Memiç , Kadir Şimşek , Carl-Fredrik Westin , Evren Özarslan

The subject matter of this paper concerns anisotropic diffusion equations: we consider heat equations whose diffusion matrix have disparate eigenvalues. We determine first and second order approximations, we study the well-posedness of them…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Mihai Bostan

Non-thermal emission from relativistic Cosmic Ray (CR) electrons gives insight into the strength and morphology of intra-cluster magnetic fields, as well as providing powerful tracers of structure formation shocks. Emission caused by CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-21 Ludwig M. Böss , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch

The time dependent non-equilibrium radiation diffusion equations are important for solving the transport of energy through radiation in optically thick regimes and find applications in several fields including astrophysics and inertial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Bobby Philip , Zhen Wang , Mark Berrill , Manuel Rodriguez Rodriguez , Michael Pernice

We consider elliptic diffusion problems with a random anisotropic diffusion coefficient, where, in a notable direction given by a random vector field, the diffusion strength differs from the diffusion strength perpendicular to this notable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Helmut Harbrecht , Marc Schmidlin

The propagation of cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields is a diffusive process driven by the scattering of the charged particles by random magnetic fluctuations. Such fields are usually highly intermittent, consisting of intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Snodin , Amit Seta , Paul Bushby , Toby Wood

Constraining the behavior of cosmic ray data observed at Earth requires a precise understanding of how the cosmic rays propagate in the interstellar medium. The interstellar medium is not homogeneous; although turbulent magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 J. Patrick Harding , Chris L. Fryer , Susan Mendel

We calculate cosmic ray transport with a collisional Boltzmann Transport Equation, including E-M forces. We apply the Crank-Nicholson Method to solve this equation. At each time step, the spatial distribution of cosmic rays is applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-17 Paul Rimmer , Eric Herbst

In this letter, we propose a reduced-order model to bridge the particle transport mechanics and the macroscopic fluid dynamics in the highly scattered regime. A rigorous mathematical derivation and a concise physical interpretation are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Yuan Hu , Chang Liu , Huayun Shen