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The correlated motion of flocks is an instance of global order emerging from local interactions. An essential difference with analogous ferromagnetic systems is that flocks are active: animals move relative to each other, dynamically…

Collective motion is often modeled within the framework of active fluids, where the constituent active particles, when interactions with other particles are switched off, perform normal diffusion at long times. However, in biology,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-02 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

In this article, we investigate the convergence behavior of two classes of gathering protocols with fixed circulant topologies using tools from dynamical systems. Given a fixed number of mobile entities moving in the Euclidean plane, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Raphael Gerlach , Sören von der Gracht , Michael Dellnitz

Understanding complexity in fluid mechanics is a major problem that has attracted the attention of physicists and mathematicians during the last decades. Using the concept of renormalization in dynamics, we show the existence of a locally…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Pierre Berger , Anna Florio , Daniel Peralta-Salas

We present a quantitative continuum theory of ``flocking'': the collective coherent motion of large numbers of self-propelled organisms. Our model predicts the existence of an ``ordered phase'' of flocks, in which all members of the flock…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Toner , Yuhai Tu

When interacting motile units self-organize into flocks, they realize one of the most robust ordered state found in nature. However, after twenty five years of intense research, the very mechanism controlling the ordering dynamics of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-04 Amélie Chardac , Ludwig A. Hoffmann , Yoann Poupart , Luca Giomi , Denis Bartolo

We consider a hydrodynamic model of flocking-type with all-to-all interaction kernel in one-space dimension and establish that the global entropy weak solutions, constructed in [2] to the Cauchy problem for any $BV$ initial data that has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Debora Amadori , Cleopatra Christoforou

How do flocks, herds and swarms proceed through disordered environments? This question is not only crucial to animal groups in the wild, but also to virtually all applications of collective robotics, and active materials composed of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-17 Alexandre Morin , Nicolas Desreumaux , Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Denis Bartolo

Hydrodynamics provides a universal description of the emergent collective dynamics of vastly different many-body systems, based solely on their symmetries and conservation laws. Here we harness this universality, encoded in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 P. I. Hurtado , J. J. del Pozo , P. L. Garrido

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

In this paper we study collective decision making on a multi-population, represented by a regular network of groups of individuals. Each group consists of a collection of players and every player can choose between two options. A group is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Wouter Baar , Dario Bauso

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 explore the bifurcation structure of mode-1 solitary waves in a three-layer fluid confined between two rigid boundaries. A recent study (Lamb, J. Fluid Mech. 2023, 962, A17) proposed a method to predict the coexistence of solitary waves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ricardo Barros , Alex Doak , Wooyoung Choi , Paul Milewski

The dynamics of an inviscid and incompressible fluid flow on a Riemannian manifold is governed by the Euler equations. Recently, Tao launched a programme to address the global existence problem for the Euler and Navier Stokes equations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Robert Cardona , Eva Miranda , Daniel Peralta-Salas , Francisco Presas

Systems of motile microorganisms exhibit a multitude of collective phenomena, including motility-induced phase separation and turbulence. Sensing of the environment and adaptation of movement plays an essential role in the emergent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-26 Segun Goh , Elmar Westphal , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We investigate global solutions to the Euler-alignment system in $d$ dimensions with unidirectional flows and strongly singular communication protocols $\phi(x) = |x|^{-(d+\alpha)}$ for $\alpha \in (0,2)$. Our paper establishes global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Yatao Li , Qianyun Miao , Changhui Tan , Liutang Xue

In this work we present a general strategy for constructing multidimensional Riemann solvers with a single intermediate state, with particular attention paid to detailing the two-dimensional Riemann solver. This is accomplished by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dinshaw S. Balsara

Coordinated collective motion in bird flocks and fish schools inspires algorithms for cohesive swarm robotics. This paper presents a position-based flocking model that achieves persistent velocity alignment without velocity sensing. By…

Dynamical equations in generalized hydrodynamics (GHD), a hydrodynamic theory for integrable quantum systems at the Euler scale, take a rather simple form, even though an infinite number of conserved charges are taken into account. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-31 Benjamin Doyon , Takato Yoshimura , Jean-Sébastien Caux

Normal mode dynamics are ubiquitous underlying the motions of diverse systems from rotating stars to crystal structures. These behaviors are composed of simple collective motions of particles which move with the same frequency and phase,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-15 D. K. Watson
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