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We study an agent-based model of self-propelled particles with a velocity-dependent alignment rule. This interaction is orientation weighted and acts along the line connecting neighboring particles. Tuning the alignment strength produces…

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Consider a microscopic system of $N$ hard spheres that are initially independent (modulo the exclusion condition on particle positions) and identically distributed in $\mathbb{R}^3$. When the number $N$ of particles goes to infinity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

We consider a microscopic model (a system of self-propelled particles) to study the behaviour of a large group of pedestrians walking in a corridor. Our point of interest is the effect of anisotropic interactions on the global behaviour of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-17 Lennart Gulikers , Joep Evers , Adrian Muntean , Alexey Lyulin

We consider a system of $N$ interacting particles, governed by transport and diffusion, that converges in a mean-field limit to the solution of a McKean-Vlasov equation. From the observation of a trajectory of the system over a fixed time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Laetitia Della Maestra , Marc Hoffmann

A microscopic, stochastic, minimal model for collective and cohesive motion of identical self-propelled particles is introduced. Even though the particles interact strictly locally in a very noisy manner, we show that cohesion can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-05 Guillaume Gregoire , Hugues Chate , Yuhai Tu

Animals having a trend to align their velocities to an average of their neighbors' may flock as illustrated by the Vicsek model and its variants. If, in addition, they feel a systematic contrarian trend, the result may be a time periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-06 L L Bonilla , C. Trenado

The objective of the present work is to study a cosmological model for a spatially flat Universe whose constituents are a dark energy field and a matter field which includes baryons and dark matter. The constituents are supposed to be in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-13 Gilberto M. Kremer , Octavio A. S. Sobreiro

We derive macroscopic dynamics for self-propelled particles in a fluid. The starting point is a coupled Vicsek-Stokes system. The Vicsek model describes self-propelled agents interacting through alignment. It provides a phenomenological…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-20 Pierre Degond , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Fabien Vergnet , Hui Yu

With the aim of understanding the emergence of collective motion from local interactions of organisms in a "noisy" environment, we study biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium models consisting of self-propelled particles. In…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Czirok , T. Vicsek

High-resolution simulations of particle-based kinetic plasma models typically require a high number of particles and thus often become computationally intractable. This is exacerbated in multi-query simulations, where the problem depends on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Jan S. Hesthaven , Cecilia Pagliantini , Nicolò Ripamonti

We analyze a macroscopic model with a maximal density constraint which describes short range repulsion in biological systems. This system aims at modeling finite-size particles which cannot overlap and repel each other when they are too…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Laurent Navoret , Richard Bon , David Sanchez

This article offers a new approach for analysing the dynamic behaviour of distributions of charged particles in an electromagnetic field. After discussing the limitations inherent in the Lorentz-Dirac equation for a single point particle a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David A. Burton , Jonathan Gratus , Robin W. Tucker

We introduce an individual-based model for fiber elements having the ability to cross-link or unlink each other and to align with each other at the cross links. We first formally derive a kinetic model for the fiber and cross-links…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Pierre Degond , Fanny Delebecque , Diane Peurichard

In the development of multiscale biological models it is crucial to establish a connection between discrete microscopic or mesoscopic stochastic models and macroscopic continuous descriptions based on cellular density. In this paper a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Alber , Nan Chen , Pavel M. Lushnikov , Stuart A. Newman

We present an individual-based model describing disk-like self-propelled particles moving inside parallel planes. The disk directions of motion follow alignment rules inside each layer. Additionally, the disks are subject to interactions…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-02-23 Pierre Degond , Laurent Navoret

We consider a class of interacting particle models with anisotropic, repulsive-attractive interaction forces whose orientations depend on an underlying tensor field. An example of this class of models is the so-called K\"ucken-Champod model…

We consider large systems of stochastic interacting particles through discontinuous kernels which has vision geometrical constrains. We rigorously derive a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck type of kinetic mean-field equation from the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Young-Pil Choi , Samir Salem

Recently, we proposed a self-propelled particle model with competing alignment interactions: nearby particles tend to align their velocities whereas they anti-align their direction of motion with particles which are further away [R.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Großmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

The adsorption phenomenon of neutral particles from the limiting surfaces of the sample in the Langmuir approximation is investigated. The diffusion equation regulating the redistribution of particles in the bulk is assumed to be of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A Sapora , M Codegone , G Barbero , LR Evangelista

We have analyzed a nonsingular model with a variable cosmological term following the Carvalho {\it et al}. ansatz. The model was shown to approximate to the model of Freese {\it et al}. in one direction and to the \"{O}zer-Taha in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-15 Arbab I. Arbab