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Flocking models with metric and topological interactions are supposed to exhibit distinct features, as for instance the presence and absence of moving polar bands. On the other hand, quenched disorder (spatial heterogeneities) has been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Parisa Rahmani , Fernando Peruani , Pawel Romanczuk

The collective motion of epithelial cells is a fundamental biological process which plays a significant role in embryogenesis, wound healing and tumor metastasis. While it has been broadly investigated for over a decade both in vivo and in…

We obtain the equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics for many-particle systems whose microscopic units have both translational and rotational motion. The orientational dynamics of each element are studied in terms of the rotational Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-20 Akira Yoshimori , Shankar P. Das

Coordinated movement and self-organisation of active self-driven agents is common in nature and is seen across different scales, from herds of animals to collective motion in bacteria. Often, these systems are heterogeneous in composition,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-28 Balagopal Nair , Arshed Nabeel , Danny Raj M

We study the hydrodynamic description of collective dynamics driven by velocity {\it alignment}. It is known that such Euler alignment systems must flock towards a limiting ``flocking'' velocity, provided their solutions remain globally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Eitan Tadmor

The flocking of self-propelled particles in heterogeneous environments is relevant to both natural and artificial systems. The Vicsek model is a canonical choice to investigate such systems due to the minimal number of parameters required…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Eighdi Aung , Nicole Abaid , James E. McClure

In this paper we prove global existence of weak solutions, their regularization, and relaxation for large data for a broad class of Fokker-Planck-Alignment models which appear in collective dynamics. The main feature of these results, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 R. Shvydkoy

The flow-driven transport of interacting micron-sized particles occurs in many soft matter systems spanning from the translocation of proteins to moving emulsions in microfluidic devices. Here we combine experiments and theory to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-16 Dominik Lips , Eric Cereceda-López , Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz , Pietro Tierno , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

We study the Cucker--Smale (C-S) flocking systems involving both singularity and noise. We first show the local strong well-posedness for the stochastic singular C-S systems before the first collision time, which is a well defined stopping…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Qiao Huang , Xiongtao Zhang

In particle systems, flocking refers to the phenomenon where particles' individual velocities eventually align. The Cucker-Smale model is a well-known mathematical framework that describes this behavior. Many continuous descriptions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Sebastian Zimper , Federico Cornalba , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad , Ana Djurdjevac

This paper deals with the Toner-Tu (TT) model, which is a hydrodynamic model describing the collective motion of numerous self-propelled agents. We analytically study the global-in-time well-posedness of the TT model near the steady-state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Young-Pil Choi , Kyungkeun Kang , Woojae Lee

We consider self-propelled rigid-bodies interacting through local body-attitude alignment modelled by stochastic differential equations. We derive a hydrodynamic model of this system at large spatio-temporal scales and particle numbers in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle

We simulate clustering, phase separation and hexatic ordering in a monolayered suspension of active squirming disks subject to an attractive Lennard-Jones-like pairwise interaction potential, taking hydrodynamic interactions between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 Ricard Matas Navarro , Suzanne Fielding

We consider an Individual-Based Model for self-rotating particles interacting through local alignment and investigate its macroscopic limit. This model describes self-propelled particles moving in the plane and trying to synchronize their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Pierre Degond , Giacomo Dimarco , Thi Bich Ngoc Mac

We study the hydrodynamic behavior of two-dimensional chiral dry Malthusian flocks; that is, chiral polar-ordered active matter with neither number nor momentum conservation. We show that, in the absence of fluctuations, such systems…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Leiming Chen , Chiu Fan Lee , John Toner

We consider a coarse-grained description of a system of self-propelled particles given by hydrodynamic equations for the density and polarization fields. We find that the ordered moving or flocking state of the system is unstable to spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Shradha Mishra , Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

Collective dynamics can be observed among many animal species, and have given rise in the last decades to an active and interdisciplinary field of study. Such behaviors are often modeled by active matter, in which each individual is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Clément Erignoux

The generalized transport equations for a consistent description of kinetic and hydrodynamic processes in dense gases and liquids are considered. The inner structure of the generalized transport kernels for these equations is established.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 B. Markiv , I. Omelyan , M. Tokarchuk

A model of self-driven particles similar to the Vicsek model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 1226] but with metric-free interactions is studied by means of a novel Enskog-type kinetic theory. In this model, N particles of constant speed v0 try…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-21 Yen-Liang Chou , Rylan Wolfe , Thomas Ihle

We consider the collective behaviour of active particles that locally align with their neighbours. Agent-based simulation models have previously shown that in one dimension, these particles can form into a flock that maintains its stability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Eoin Ó Laighléis , Martin R. Evans , Richard A. Blythe