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In this paper, we establish the existence and uniqueness of local strong solutions to the kinetic Cucker--Smale model coupled with the isentropic compressible Navier--Stokes equation in the whole space. Moreover, the blowup mechanism for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Chunyin Jin

In this work, we study a class of nonlocal-in-time kinetic models of incompressible dilute polymeric fluids. The system couples a macroscopic balance of linear momentum equation with a mezoscopic subdiffusive Fokker-Planck equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Marvin Fritz , Endre Süli , Barbara Wohlmuth

The Motsch-Tadmor (MT) model is a variant of the Cucker-Smale model with a normalized communication weight function. The normalization poses technical challenges in analyzing the collective behavior due to the absence of conservation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Seung-Yeal Ha , Franca Hoffmann , Dohyeon Kim , Wook Yoon

We consider a perturbed version of the dynamics of a flock introduced by Cucker and Smale ("Emergent behaviour in flocks") and prove, under similar conditions, that nearly-alignment (a concept that is precised in the text) is achieved with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-06-25 Felipe Cucker , Ernesto Mordecki

We provide a bird's eye view on developments in analyzing the long time, large crowd behavior of Cucker-Smale alignment dynamics. We consider a class of (fully-)discrete models, paying particular attention to general alignment protocols in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Eitan Tadmor

In this paper, we propose a coupled system describing the interaction between the Relativistic Cucker-Smale model and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations via a drag force, and establish a global existence theory as well as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Shenglun Yan , Weiyuan Zou

We study the emergent dynamics of the relativistic kinetic Cucker-Smale (RKCS) model without assuming compactness in spatial and velocity support. In this setting, the lower bound of the kernel function in the nonlocal velocity alignment…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Seung-Yeal Ha , Xinyu Wang

We study the behavior of classical dimer coverings of the square lattice - a paradigmatic model for systems subject to constraints - evolving under local stochastic dynamics, by means of Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical arguments. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-17 Tom Oakes , Juan P. Garrahan , Stephen Powell

The existing state of the art for singular models of flocking is overviewed, starting from microscopic model of Cucker and Smale with singular communication weight, through its mesoscopic mean-filed limit, up to the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Piotr Minakowski , Piotr B. Mucha , Jan Peszek , Ewelina Zatorska

We present pathwise flocking dynamics and local sensitivity analysis for the Cucker-Smale(C-S) model with random communications and initial data. For the deterministic communications, it is well known that the C-S model can model emergent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Seung-Yeal Ha , Shi Jin

We establish sufficient conditions for the quick relaxation to kinetic equilibrium in the classic Vicsek-Cucker-Smale model of bird flocking. The convergence time is polynomial in the number of birds as long as the number of flocks remains…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Bernard Chazelle , Kritkorn Karntikoon

We study the global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to kinetic Kolmogorov-Vicsek models that can be considered a non-local non-linear Fokker-Planck type equation describing the dynamics of individuals with orientational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Irene M. Gamba , Moon-Jin Kang

This work concerns the local convergence theory of Newton and quasi-Newton methods for convex-composite optimization: minimize f(x):=h(c(x)), where h is an infinite-valued proper convex function and c is C^2-smooth. We focus on the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 James V. Burke , Abraham Engle

We derive an explicit form for the Cucker-Smale (CS) model on the special orthogonal group $\mathrm{SO}(3)$ by identifying closed form expressions for geometric quantities such as covariant derivative and parallel transport in exponential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Razvan C. Fetecau , Seung-Yeal Ha , Hansol Park

A kinetic-fluid model describing the evolutions of disperse two-phase flows is considered. The model consists of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation for the particles (disperse phase) coupled with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Fucai Li , Yanmin Mu , Dehua Wang

We consider a compressible Euler system with singular velocity alignment, known as the Euler-alignment system, describing the flocking behaviors of large animal groups. We establish a local well-posedness theory for the system, as well as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Li Chen , Changhui Tan , Lining Tong

In this paper, we are concerned with the global well-posedness and time-asymptotic decay of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation with local alignment forces. The equation can be formally derived from an agent-based model for self-organized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Young-Pil Choi

We consider the Cucker-Smale system with multiplicative noise in a harmonic potential field and investigate the effect of harmonic potential field. In the presence of external potential force, the system is expected to emerge into almost…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Du Linglong , Zhou Xinyun

We study a Cucker-Smale-type flocking model with distributed time delay where individuals interact with each other through normalized communication weights. Based on a Lyapunov functional approach, we provide sufficient conditions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Young-Pil Choi , Cristina Pignotti

We investigate local regularity properties of weak solutions to a broad class of nonlinear nonlocal kinetic Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck equations. In particular, we focus on proving an interpolative apriori boundedness estimate for weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Francesca Anceschi , Mirco Piccinini