DIMENSIONAL METHOD TO SOLVE THE DIFFUSION CONVECTION EQUATION OF SOLAR COSMIC RAYS

Abstract：

Physical processes of the propagation of the solar cosmic rays in the interplanetary space include the diffusion in interplanetary disordered magnetic fields and the convection in solar winds. Dimensional method can be applied to solve those equations convertible into Bessel equation, the results obtained are identical with those solved by the commonly used separate variable method. In order to derive an analytic solution to the diffusion convection equation in an unbounded, uniform medium, two dimensionless parameters reflecting the diffusion and convection characteristics of the particles are introduced. In the diffusion dominated case, the solution is similar in form to the diffusion of a source moving with the convection velocity and is modified by another convection term, which can be expanded into a power series of the convection parameter with coefficients composed of the generalized hypergeometric function series of the diffusion parameter. This solution has a clear physical meaning, and can suitably be used in the discussion of the rise phase characteristics of the solar cosmic rays from medium to high energies （E_p≥10¹ MeV）.