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We study the fluid dynamics of two fish-like bodies with synchronised swimming patterns. Our studies are based on two-dimensional simulations of viscous incompressible flows. We distinguish between motion patterns that are externally…

We propose a new model in order to study behaviors of self-organized system such as a group of animals. We assume that the individuals have two degrees of freedom corresponding one to their internal state and the other to their external…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 P. The Nguyen , V. Thanh Ngo , H. T. Diep

Synchronization is one of the most striking instances of collective behavior, occurring in many natural phenomena. For example, in some ant species, ants are inactive within the nest most of the time, but their bursts of activity are highly…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-12 Pedro M. M. da Silveira , José F. Fontanari

Active matter systems encompass both natural and artificially created systems consisting of numerous active particles. These particles actively consume energy to propel themselves or exert mechanical forces, leading to intricate behaviors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mintu Karmakar

Collective behaviors displayed by groups of social animals are observed frequently in nature. Understanding and predicting the behavior of complex biological systems is dependent on developing effective descriptions and models. While…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Julia A. Giannini , James G. Puckett

Collective dynamics of many interacting particles have been widely studied because of a wealth of their behavioral patterns quite different from the individual traits. A selective way of birds that reacts to their neighbors is one of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-05-04 Narina Jung , Byung Mook Weon , Pilwon Kim

We study a system of two-mode stochastic oscillators coupled through their collective output. As a function of a relevant parameter four qualitatively distinct regimes of collective behavior are observed. In an extended region of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Nikitin , Z. Neda , T. Vicsek

Flexible filamentous beds interacting with a turbulent flow represent a fundamental setting for many environmental phenomena, e.g., aquatic canopies in marine current. Exploiting direct numerical simulations at high Reynolds number where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-28 Alessandro Monti , Stefano Olivieri , Marco E. Rosti

Flocking is a paradigmatic example of collective animal behaviour, where decentralized interaction rules give rise to a globally ordered state. In the emergence of order out of self-organization we find similarities between biological…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-14 Andrea Cavagna , Silvio M. Duarte Queiros , Irene Giardina , Fabio Stefanini , Massimiliano Viale

Energy saving mechanisms in nature allow following organisms to expend less energy than leaders. Queues, or ordered rows of individuals, may form when organisms exploit the available energy saving mechanism while travelling at near-maximal…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-10 Hugh Trenchard , Carlton Brett , Matjaz Perc

Coupled dynamical systems in ecology are known to respond to the seasonal forcing of their parameters with multiple dynamical behaviours, ranging from seasonal cycles to chaos. Seasonal forcing is predominantly modelled as a sine wave but…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-15 Alix M. C. Sauve , Rachel A. Taylor , Frédéric Barraquand

This study investigates temporal variability in U.S. climate using harmonic decomposition techniques, specifically Fourier and wavelet transforms. Monthly temperature, precipitation, and drought index data from the National Oceanic and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Thomas Xiao

The collective behaviour of confluent cell sheets is strongly influenced both by polar forces, arising through cytoskeletal propulsion and by active inter-cellular forces, which are mediated by interactions across cell-cell junctions. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-28 Guanming Zhang , Romain Mueller , Amin Doostmohammadi , Julia M. Yeomans

There are rich emergent phase behaviors in non-equilibrium active systems. Flocking and clustering are two representative dynamic phases. The relationship between these two phases is still unclear. In the paper, we numerically investigate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-09 Lu Chen , Bokai Zhang , Z. C. Tu

The nature of the phase transition in a system of self-propelling particles has been extensively studied during the last few decades. A theoretical model was proposed by T. Vicsek, {\it et. al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 75}, 1226 (1995)] with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 P. The Nguyen , Sang-Hee Lee , V. Thanh Ngo

Individual computations and social interactions underlying collective behavior in groups of animals are of great ethological, behavioral, and theoretical interest. While complex individual behaviors have successfully been parsed into small…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-08 Roy Harpaz , Gašper Tkačik , Elad Schneidman

The nature of emergent collective behaviors of moving physical agents interacting with their neighborhood is a long-standing open issue in physical and biological systems alike. This calls for studies on the control of synchronization and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-11 Tirthankar Banerjee , Abhik Basu

A class of stochastic individual-based models, written in terms of coupled velocity jump processes, is presented and analysed. This modelling approach incorporates recent experimental findings on behaviour of locusts. It exhibits nontrivial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Radek Erban , Jan Haskovec

Collective motion is a phenomenon observed across length scales in nature, from bacterial swarming and tissue migration to the flocking of animals. The mechanisms underlying this behavior vary significantly depending on the biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-15 Urvi Mahendra Bora , Mohd Suhail Rizvi

We study the (hydro-)dynamics of multi-species driven by alignment. What distinguishes the different species is the protocol of their interaction with the rest of the crowd: the collective motion is described by different communication…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Siming He , Eitan Tadmor