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A generalization of the Cucker-Smale model for collective animal behaviour is investigated. The model is formulated as a system of delayed stochastic differential equations. It incorporates two additional processes which are present in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Radek Erban , Jan Haskovec , Yongzheng Sun

In this paper we propose and study a hybrid discrete in continuous mathematical model of collective motion under alignment and chemotaxis effect. Starting from the paper by Di Costanzo et al (2015a), in which the Cucker-Smale model (Cucker…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Ezio Di Costanzo , Marta Menci , Eleonora Messina , Roberto Natalini , Antonia Vecchio

This note introduces a new method for establishing alignment in systems of collective behavior with degenerate communication protocol. The communication protocol consists of a kernel defining interaction between pairs of agents. Degeneracy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Helge Dietert , Roman Shvydkoy

Consider a flock of birds that fly interacting between them. The interactions are modelled through a hierarchical system in which each bird, at each time step, adjusts its own velocity according to his past velocity and a weighted mean of…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-24 Federico Dalmao , Ernesto Mordecki

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

This paper studies global existence, hydrodynamic limit, and large-time behavior of weak solutions to a kinetic flocking model coupled to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The model describes the motion of particles immersed in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-25 J. A. Carrillo , Y. -P. Choi , T. K. Karper

This paper deals with the derivation and analysis of a compressible Euler-type equation with singular commutator, which is derived from a hyperbolic limit of the kinetic description to the Cucker-Smale model of interacting individuals

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-03 David Poyato , Juan Soler

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

We develop a global wellposedness theory for weak solutions to the 1D Euler-alignment system with measure-valued density, bounded velocity, and locally integrable communication protocol. A satisfactory understanding of the low-regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Trevor M. Leslie , Changhui Tan

Classical swarm models, exemplified by the Cucker--Smale framework, provide foundational insights into collective alignment but exhibit fundamental limitations in capturing the adaptive, heterogeneous behaviours intrinsic to living systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-09-08 Rene Fabregas , Jie Liao , Nisrine Outada

In this work, we discuss kinetic descriptions of flocking models, of the so-called Cucker-Smale and Motsch-Tadmor types. These models are given by Vlasov-type equations where the interactions taken into account are only given long-range…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Thomas Rey , Changhui Tan

Euler alignment systems appear as hydrodynamic limits of interacting self-propelled particle systems such as the (generalized) Cucker-Smale model. In this work, we study weak solutions to an Euler alignment system on smooth, bounded,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Amoolya Tirumalai , Christos Mavridis , John S. Baras

We study the multi-dimensional Euler-alignment system with a matrix-valued communication kernel, motivated by models of anticipation dynamics in collective behaviour. A key feature of this system is its formal equivalence to a nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Jakub Woźnicki , Ewelina Zatorska

In this paper, we deal with a Cucker-Smale model with time-dependent time delay and communication failures. Namely, we investigate the situation in which the agents involved in a flocking process can possibly suspend the exchange of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Elisa Continelli

Collective behaviors such as swarming and flocking emerge from simple, decentralized interactions in biological systems. Existing models, such as Vicsek and Cucker-Smale, lack collision avoidance, whereas the Olfati-Saber model imposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hossein B. Jond

We provide a new existence result for weak solutions to the one-dimensional Euler equations with a maximal density constraint, corresponding to a unilateral constraint on the density. Such models arise in the description of congestion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Charlotte Perrin

We consider the celebrated Cucker-Smale model in finite dimension, modelling interacting collective dynamics and their possible evolution to consensus. The objective of this paper is to study the effect of time delays in the general model.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Cristina Pignotti , Emmanuel Trélat

We study the pressureless Euler equations with nonlocal alignment interactions, which arises as a macroscopic representation of complex biological systems modeling animal flocks. For such Euler-Alignment system with bounded interactions, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Changhui Tan

We study the collective behaviors of two second-order nonlinear consensus models with a bonding force, namely the Kuramoto model and the Cucker-Smale model with inter-particle bonding force. The proposed models contain feedback control…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Hyunjin Ahn , Junhyeok Byeon , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaeyoung Yoon

In this note we continue our study of unidirectional solutions to hydrodynamic Euler alignment systems with strongly singular communication kernels $\phi(x):=|x|^{-(n+\alpha)}$ for $\alpha\in(0,2)$. The solutions describe unidirectional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Daniel Lear , Roman Shvydkoy