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We study the well-posedness, steady states and long time behavior of solutions to Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation with external confinement potential and nonlinear self-consistent interactions. Our analysis introduces newly characterized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Pierre Gervais , Maxime Herda

Fish schooling is often modeled with self-propelled particles subject to phenomenological behavioral rules. Although fish are known to sense and exploit flow features, these models usually neglect hydrodynamics. Here, we propose a novel…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Audrey Filella , François Nadal , Clément Sire , Eva Kanso , Christophe Eloy

Flocking refers to collective behavior of a large number of interacting entities, where the interactions between discrete individuals produce collective motion on the large scale. We employ an agent-based model to describe the microscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Zhiping Mao , Zhen Li , George Em Karniadakis

This paper presents a position-based flocking model for interacting agents, balancing cohesion-separation and alignment to achieve stable collective motion. The model modifies a position-velocity-based approach by approximating velocity…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hossein B. Jond

We present a general framework for modeling a wide selection of flocking scenarios under free boundary conditions. Several variants have been considered - including examples for the widely observed behavior of hierarchically interacting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Yongnan Jia , Tamas Vicsek

Understanding collective self-organization in active matter, such as bird flocks and fish schools, remains a grand challenge in physics. Interactions that induce alignment are essential for flocking; however, alignment alone is generally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Julian Giraldo-Barreto , Viktor Holubec

We investigate the effect of cooperative interactions in an ensemble of microorganisms, modelled as self-propelled disk-like and rod-like particles, in a three-dimensional turbulent flow to show flocking as an emergent phenomenon. Building…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Anupam Gupta , Amal Roy , Arnab Saha , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

A one-dimensional rule-based model for flocking, that combines velocity alignment and long-range centering interactions, is presented and studied. The induced cohesion in the collective motion of the self-propelled agents leads to a unique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-19 V. Dossetti

We present a sufficient condition of the complete position flocking theorem for the Cucker-Smale type model on the unit sphere with an inter-particle bonding force. For this second order dynamical system derived in [Choi, S.-H., Kwon, D.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Sun-Ho Choi , Dohyun Kwon , Hyowon Seo

We derive the Hydrodynamics for a system of N active, spherical, underdamped particles, interacting through conservative forces. At the microscopic level, we represent the evolution of the particles in terms of the Kramers equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Lorenzo Caprini

Asymmetric obstacles can be exploited to direct the motion and induce sorting of run-and-tumbling particles. In this work, we show that flocking particles which follow the Vicsek model aligning rules experience a collective trapping in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-02 Raul Martinez , Francisco Alarcon , Juan Luis Aragones , Chantal Valeriani

Active particles, which interact hydrodynamically, display a remarkable variety of emergent collective phenomena. We use squirmers to model spherical microswimmers and explore the collective behavior of thousands of them under the influence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-31 Jan-Timm Kuhr , Johannes Blaschke , Felix Rühle , Holger Stark

We study how hydrodynamic interactions affect the collective behaviour of active particles suspended in a fluid at high concentrations, with particular attention to lubrication forces which appear when the particles are very close to one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-29 Natsuhiko Yoshinaga , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

Within a simple model of attractive active Brownian particles, we predict flocking behavior and challenge the widespread idea that alignment interactions are necessary to observe this collective phenomenon. Here, we show that even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-19 Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen

Using an approach based on Doi-Peliti field theory, we study several different Active Ising Models (AIMs), in each of which collective motion (flocking) of self-propelled particles arises from the spontaneous breaking of a discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Mattia Scandolo , Johannes Pausch , Michael E. Cates

The collective behavior of active semiflexible filaments is studied with a model of tangentially driven self-propelled worm-like chains. The combination of excluded-volume interactions and self-propulsion leads to several distinct dynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Ozer Duman , Rolf E. Isele-Holder , Jens Elgeti , Gerhard Gompper

Natural flocks (aligned) and swarms (non-aligned) both exhibit features of near-criticality, challenging their treatment as two ends of the same phase transition. We present a model for the aggregation of active individuals, in which their…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-26 Joao Lizárraga , Marcus de Aguiar

We consider a continuum model for the dynamics of systems of self propelling particles with kinematic constraints on the velocities. The model aims to be analogous to a discrete algorithm used in works by T. Vicsek et al. In this paper we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-12-16 V. I. Ratushnaya , V. L. Kulinskii , A. V. Zvelindovsky , D. Bedeaux

We study, numerically, the collective dynamics of self-rotating nonaligning particles by considering a monolayer of spheres driven by constant clockwise or counterclockwise torques. We show that hydrodynamic interactions alter the emergence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-24 Kyongmin Yeo , Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

We present a systematic approach to regularity theory of the multi-dimensional Euler alignment systems with topological diffusion introduced in \cite{STtopo}. While these systems exhibit flocking behavior emerging from purely local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Daniel Lear , David N. Reynolds , Roman Shvydkoy