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We consider a compressible Euler system with singular velocity alignment, known as the Euler-alignment system, describing the flocking behaviors of large animal groups. We establish a local well-posedness theory for the system, as well as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Li Chen , Changhui Tan , Lining Tong

Collective motion in animal groups provide examples of emergent, decentralised coordination. Here, we examine a bottom-up model of collective behavior based on Future State Maximisation (FSM). In this model agents seek to maximise the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-22 Sam Turley , Matthew Turner

The increasing number of mass events involving large crowds calls for a better understanding of the dynamics of dense crowds. Inquiring into the possibility of a mechanical description of these dynamics, we experimentally study the crossing…

The remarkable cohesion and coordination observed in moving animal groups and their collective responsiveness to threats are thought to be mediated by scale-free correlations, where changes in the behavior of one animal influence others in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Haotian Hang , Chenchen Huang , Alex Barnett , Eva Kanso

We study coarse-grained (group-level) alignment dynamics of individual-based animal group models for {\it heterogeneous} populations consisting of informed (on preferred directions) and uninformed individuals. The orientation of each…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Sung Joon Moon , B. Nabet , Naomi E. Leonard , Simon A. Levin , I. G. Kevrekidis

We consider a general swarm model of self-propelling agents interacting through a pairwise potential in the presence of noise and communication time delay. Previous work [Phys. Rev. E 77, 035203(R) (2008)] has shown that a communication…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-05-02 Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero , Eric Forgoston , Ira B. Schwartz

Understanding crowd behaviors in a large social event is crucial for event management. Passive WiFi sensing, by collecting WiFi probe requests sent from mobile devices, provides a better way to monitor crowds compared with people counters…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Zann Koh , Chau Yuen , Benny Kai Kiat Ng

We consider the problem of controlling the group behavior of a large number of dynamic systems that are constantly interacting with each other. These systems are assumed to have identical dynamics (e.g., birds flock, robot swarm) and their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Yongxin Chen

Swarmalators have emerged as a new paradigm for dynamical collective behavior of multi-agent systems due to the interplay of synchronization and swarming that they inherently incorporate. Their dynamics have been explored with different…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-09-07 Gourab Kumar Sar , Dibakar Ghosh

In this paper, we quantify the asymptotic limit of collective behavior kinetic equations arising in mathematical biology modeled by Vlasov-type equations with nonlocal interaction forces and alignment. More precisely, we investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-10 José A. Carrillo , Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung

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 study the long-time behavior of decoupled continuous-time random walks characterized by superheavy-tailed distributions of waiting times and symmetric heavy-tailed distributions of jump lengths. Our main quantity of interest is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 S. I. Denisov , S. B. Yuste , Yu. S. Bystrik , H. Kantz , K. Lindenberg

Intervals between discrete events representing human activities, as well as other types of events, often obey heavy-tailed distributions, and their impacts on collective dynamics on networks such as contagion processes have been intensively…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-24 Elohim Fonseca dos Reis , Aming Li , Naoki Masuda

We study finite-time flocking for an infinite set of Cucker-Smale particles with sublinear velocity coupling under fixed and switching sender networks. For this, we use a component-wise diameter framework and exploit sub-linear dissipation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Seung-Yeal Ha , Xinyu Wang , Fanqin Zeng

Collective motion - or flocking - is an emergent phenomena that underlies many biological processes of relevance, from cellular migrations to animal groups movement. In this work, we derive scaling relations for the fluctuations of the mean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-13 Martino Brambati , Giuseppe Fava , Francesco Ginelli

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

In recent years it has become evident the need of understanding how failure of coordination imposes constraints on the size of stable groups that highly social mammals can live in. We examine here the forces that keep animals together as a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-09 Laura P. Schaposnik , Sheryl Hsu , Robin I. M. Dunbar

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of a class of isolated one-dimensional systems possessing two degenerate ground states, initialized in a low-energy symmetric phase. We report the emergence of a time-scale separation between fast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Alvise Bastianello , Alessio Chiocchetta , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Andrea Gambassi

Species subject to predation and environmental threats commonly exhibit variable periods of population boom and bust over long timescales. Understanding and predicting such behavior, especially given the inherent heterogeneity and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-03 Daniel Messenger , Greg Dwyer , Vanja Dukic

We study an ecology-inspired model for a population of bounded size, whose dynamics is governed by random birth, death, and immigration events. Stochastic fluctuations in the number of individuals give rise to a succession of alternating…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-27 Lucas M. Brugevin , Damián H. Zanette
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