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A model has two main aims: predicting the behavior of a physical system and understanding its nature, that is how it works, at some desired level of abstraction. A promising recent approach to model building consists in deriving a…

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Parallel thermal conduction along stochastic magnetic field lines may be reduced because the heat conducting electrons become trapped and detrapped between regions of strong magnetic field (magnetic mirrors). The problem reduces to a simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Leonid Malyshkin , Russell Kulsrud

In this paper, a physics-oriented stochastic kinetic scheme will be developed that includes random inputs from both flow and electromagnetic fields via a hybridization of stochastic Galerkin and collocation methods. Based on the BGK-type…

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Quantum transport in inhomogeneous magnetic fields is investigated numerically in two-dimensional systems using the equation of motion method. In particular, the diffusion of electrons in random magnetic fields in the presence of additional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki

Recent advances in single particle tracking and supercomputing techniques demonstrate the emergence of normal or anomalous, viscoelastic diffusion in conjunction with non-Gaussian distributions in soft, biological, and active matter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-23 Jakub Ślęzak , Ralf Metzler , Marcin Magdziarz

A stationary distribution function that describes the entire processes of propagation of relativistic particles, including the transition between the ballistic and diffusion regimes, is obtained. The spacial component of the constructed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 A. Y. Prosekin , S. R. Kelner , F. A. Aharonian

A stochastic model is presented for a super-position of uncorrelated pulses with a random distribution of amplitudes, sizes, velocities and arrival times. The pulses are assumed to move radially with fixed shape and amplitudes decaying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 J. M. Losada , A. Theodorsen , O. E. Garcia

We investigate the anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays in the large-scale Galactic magnetic field, where diffusion occurs at different rates along and across the magnetic field lines. To model this process, we use stochastic differential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-17 Ala'a AL-Zetoun

When a particle diffuses in a medium with spatially dependent friction coefficient $\alpha(r)$ at constant temperature $T$, it drifts toward the low friction end of the system even in the absence of any real physical force $f$. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

The behavior of magnetic field lines in a turbulent plasma is a key property of the medium, with important consequences for plasma dynamics and charged-particle transport. We study the diffusion properties of magnetic field lines in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Matthieu Bouchet , Yoann Génolini , Silvio S. Cerri , Alexandre Marcowith , Philipp Mertsch

Solutions of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equations for the electric field radiated by a time varying point charge in a three-dimensional, unbounded, spatially homogeneous plasma with a uniform background magnetic field and a uniform…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 John J. Podesta

A quantum kinetic equation is obtained for an inhomogeneous solid having arbitrary gradient concentration and chemical potential. We find, starting from nonequilibrium statistical operator, a new equation to describe atom migration in solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-31 Y. Bilotsky , M. Gasik , B. Lev

Given a reaction-advection-diffusion system modelling the sulphation phenomenon, we derive a single regularised non-conservative and path-dependent nonlinear partial differential equation and propose a probabilistic interpretation via a…

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This paper deals with the analysis of stochastic systems which can be described by a Langevin equation. By the method presented in this paper drift and diffusion terms of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation can be extracted from the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Siegert , R. Friedrich , J. Peinke

The energy production through thermo-nuclear fusion requires the confinement of the plasma into a bounded domain. In most of the cases, such configurations are obtained by using strong magnetic fields. Several models exist for describing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Mihai Bostan

Large transverse momentum distributions of identified particles observed at RHIC are analyzed by a relativistic stochastic model in the three dimensional (non-Euclidean) rapidity space. A distribution function obtained from the model is…

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The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

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The problems of high linear conductivity in an electric field, as well as nonlinear conductivity, are considered for plasma-like systems. First, we recall several observations of nonlinear fast charge transport in dusty plasma, molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , D. Litinski

A {\em propagation-dispersion equation} is derived for the first passage distribution function of a particle moving on a substrate with time delays. The equation is obtained as the continuous limit of the {\em first visit equation}, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko

We study a diffusion approximation for a model of stochastic motion of a particle in one spatial dimension. The velocity of the particle is constant but the direction of the motion undergoes random changes with a Poisson clock. Moreover,…

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