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Although diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) could be simulated by some well-established models, the assumption of the injection rate from the thermal particles to the superthermal population is still a contentious problem. But in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-02 Xin Wang , Yihua Yan

We discuss the recent developments in the theory of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) by using both first-principle kinetic plasma simulations and analytical theory based on the solution of the convection/diffusion equation. In particular,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-16 Damiano Caprioli , Colby C. Haggerty

Using the Monte Carlo simulation method for bosonic reaction-diffusion systems introduced recently [S.-C. Park, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 72}, 036111 (2005)], one dimensional bosonic models are studied and compared to the corresponding Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Su-Chan Park

Using a time-dependent multifluid, magnetohydrodynamic code, we calculated the structure of steady perpendicular and oblique C-type shocks in dusty plasmas. We included relevant processes to describe mass transfer between the different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Van Loo , I. Ashmore , P. Caselli , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of large scale structure in the universe have shown that accretion shocks and merger shocks form due to flow motions associated with the gravitational collapse of nonlinear structures. Estimated speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

The oblique collisions and dynamical interference patterns of two-dimensional dispersive shock waves are studied numerically and analytically via the temporal dynamics induced by wedge-shaped initial conditions for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-11 Gino Biondini , Alexander Bivolcic , Mark A. Hoefer

Low-frequency molecular fluctuations in the translational nonequilibrium zone of one-dimensional strong shock waves are characterised for the first time in a kinetic collisional framework in the Mach number range $2\le M\le 10$. Our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-27 Saurabh S. Sawant , Deborah A. Levin , Vassilios Theofilis

The possibility of different interpretations of the stochastic term (or calculi) in the overdamped Langevin equation for the motion of a particle in an inhomogeneous medium is often referred to as the "Ito--Stratonovich dilemma," although…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-28 Hendrick W. de Haan , Mykyta V. Chubynsky , Gary W. Slater

A previously-developed hybrid particle-continuum method [J. B. Bell, A. Garcia and S. A. Williams, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 6:1256-1280, 2008] is generalized to dense fluids and two and three dimensional flows. The scheme…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Donev , J. B. Bell , A. L. Garcia , B. J. Alder

Microscopic processes on surfaces such as adsorption, desorption, diffusion and reaction of interacting particles can be simulated using kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) algorithms. Even though kMC methods are accurate, they are computationally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Yannis Pantazis , Markos Katsoulakis

A simplified model of particle transport at a quasiparallel one-dimensional collisionless shock is suggested. In this model the MHD-turbulence behind the shock is dominated by a circularly polarized, large amplitude Alfv\'en wave originated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Malkov

A general synthetic iterative scheme is proposed to solve the Enskog equation within a Monte Carlo framework. The method demonstrates rapid convergence by reducing intermediate Monte Carlo evolution and preserves the asymptotic-preserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-26 Bin Hu , Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

Magnetic reconnection and non-thermal particle distributions associated with current-driven instabilities are investigated by means of resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations combined with relativistic test particle methods. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive language models by enabling parallel token generation and bidirectional context modeling. However, their inference speed is significantly limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Satyam Goyal , Kushal Patel , Tanush Mittal , Arjun Laxman

Monte-Carlo computations for highly relativistic parallel shock particle acceleration are presented for upstream flow gamma factors, $\Gamma=(1-V_{1}^{2}/c^{2})^{-0.5}$ with values between 5 and $10^{3}$. The results show that the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Meli , J. J Quenby

Pore-scale simulations accurately describe transport properties of fluids in the subsurface. These simulations enhance our understanding of applications such as assessing hydrogen storage efficiency and forecasting CO$_2$ sequestration…

This research was motivated by the recent observations indicating very strong magnetic fields at some supernova remnant shocks, which suggests in-situ generation of magnetic turbulence. The dissertation presents a numerical model of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-27 Andrey Vladimirov

Molecular dynamics simulations are a powerful tool to study diffusion processes in battery electrolyte and electrode materials. From a single molecular dynamics simulation many properties relevant to diffusion can be obtained, including the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Niek J. J. de Klerk , Eveline van der Maas , Marnix Wagemaker

Powerful stellar winds and supernova explosions with intense energy release in the form of strong shock waves can convert a sizeable part of the kinetic energy release into energetic particles. The starforming regions are argued as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 A. M. Bykov , P. E. Gladilin , S. M. Osipov

The Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method has become an important tool for examination of phenomena like surface diffusion and thin film growth because of its ability to carry out simulations for time scales that are relevant to experiments. But…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Talat S. Rahman , Abdelkader Kara , Altaf Karim , Oleg Trushin