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The shock waves produce relativistic particles via the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. Among various circumstances, fast acceleration has been expected for perpendicular shocks. We investigate the acceleration time and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Shoma F. Kamijima , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

The intracluster medium (ICM) is expected to experience on average about three passages of weak shocks with low sonic Mach numbers, $M\lesssim 3$, during the formation of galaxy clusters. Both protons and electrons could be accelerated to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-17 Hyesung Kang

Energetic particles are ubiquitous in space and astrophysical plasmas, and interplanetary shocks are widely regarded as one of the main particle accelerators in the heliosphere. Indeed, in-situ measurements typically show that energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Giuseppe Prete , Gaetano Zimbardo , Silvia Perri

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are a fundamental tool for modelling dynamic processes, including gene regulatory networks (GRNs), contaminant transport, financial markets, and image generation. However, learning the underlying SDE…

We describe a new approach for modeling the transport of high energy particles accelerated during flares from the acceleration region in the solar corona until their eventual thermalization in the flare footpoint. Our technique numerically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Joel C. Allred , Meriem Alaoui , Adam F. Kowalski , Graham S. Kerr

In this paper, we investigate the stochastic differential equation on $\mathbb{R}^d,d\geq2$: \begin{align*} \dif X_t&=v(t,X_t)\dif t+\sqrt{2} \dif W_t. \end{align*} For any finite collection of initial probability measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Huaxiang Lü , Michael Röckner

Reaction-diffusion equations (RDEs) model the spatiotemporal evolution of a density field $u(\vec{x},t)$ according to diffusion and net local changes. Usually, the diffusivity is positive for all values of $u,$ which causes the density to…

We study a numerical method to compute probability density functions of solutions of stochastic differential equations. The method is sometimes called the numerical path integration method and has been shown to be fast and accurate in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Linghua Chen , Espen Robstad Jakobsen , Arvid Naess

We address the problem of approximating the moments of the solution, $\boldsymbol{X}(t)$, of an It\^o stochastic differential equation (SDE) with drift and a diffusion terms over a time-grid $t_0, t_1, \ldots, t_n$. In particular, we assume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Albert López-Yela , Joaquin Miguez

We present a new code that significantly extends CRPropa's capabilities to model the ensemble averaged transport of charged cosmic rays in arbitrary turbulent magnetic fields. The software is based on solving a set of stochastic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-03 Lukas Merten , Sophie Aerdker

One of the main features of astrophysical shocks is their ability to accelerate particles to extremely high energies. The leading acceleration mechanism, the diffusive shock acceleration is reviewed. It is demonstrated that its efficiency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond

Collisionless, turbulent plasmas surround the Earth, from the magnetosphere to the intergalactic medium, and the fluctuations within them affect nearly every field in the space sciences, from space weather forecasts to theories of galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Keyan Gootkin , Colby Haggerty , Damiano Caprioli , Zachary Davis

We investigate ways of accurately simulating the propagation of energetic charged particles over small times where the standard Monte Carlo approximation to diffusive transport breaks down. We find that a small-angle scattering procedure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe , A. Meli , A. -C Donea

We develop a complete and rigorous mathematical framework for the analysis of stochastic neural field equations under the influence of spatially extended additive noise. By comparing a solution to a fixed deterministic front profile it is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Jennifer Krüger , Wilhelm Stannat

Hot accretion flows contain collisionless plasmas that are believed to be capable of accelerating particles to very high energies, as a result of turbulence generated by the magnetorotational instability (MRI). We conduct unstratified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Xiaochen Sun , Xue-Ning Bai

Radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations provide us with strong evidence of particle acceleration to multi-TeV energies in various astrophysical sources. Diffusive shock acceleration is one of the most successful models explaining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Vannoni , S. Gabici , F. A. Aharonian

Due to their intrinsic link with nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations and many other applications, distribution dependent stochastic differential equations (DDSDEs for short) have been intensively investigated. In this paper we summarize some…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Xing Huang , Panpan Ren , Feng-Yu Wang

Mathematical models describing the spatial spreading and invasion of populations of biological cells are often developed in a continuum modelling framework using reaction-diffusion equations. While continuum models based on linear diffusion…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-01-23 Matthew J Simpson , Keeley M Murphy , Scott W McCue , Pascal R Buenzli

A fractional advection-dispersion equation (fADE) has been advocated for heavy-tailed flows where the usual Brownian diffusion models fail. A stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by a stable L\'{e}vy process gives a forward…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Paramita Chakraborty , Xu Guo , Hong Wang

The Fokker-Planck (FP) model is one of the commonly used methods for studies of the dynamical evolution of dense spherical stellar systems such as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. The FP model is numerically stable in most cases, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jihye Shin , Sungsoo S. Kim