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On the Structure of Limiting Flocks in Hydrodynamic Euler Alignment Models

Analysis of PDEs 2019-08-15 v2

Abstract

The goal of this note is to study limiting behavior of a self-organized continuous flock evolving according to the 1D hydrodynamic Euler Alignment model. We provide a series of quantitative estimates that show how far the density of the limiting flock is from a uniform distribution. The key quantity that controls density distortion is the entropy H=ρlogρ\mboxdx\mathcal{H} = \int \rho \log \rho \,\mbox{d}x, and the measure of deviation from uniformity is given by a well-known conserved quantity e=u+Lψρe = u' + \mathcal{L}_\psi \rho, where uu is velocity and Lψ\mathcal{L}_\psi is the communication operator with kernel ψ\psi. The cases of Lipschitz, singular geometric, and topological kernels are covered in the study.

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@article{arxiv.1812.06511,
  title  = {On the Structure of Limiting Flocks in Hydrodynamic Euler Alignment Models},
  author = {Trevor M. Leslie and Roman Shvydkoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.06511},
  year   = {2019}
}

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accepted version. 10 pages, 0 figures

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