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We show the convergence of the zero relaxation limit in systems of $2 \times 2$ hyperbolic conservation laws with stochastic initial data. Precisely, solutions converge to a solution of the local equilibrium approximation as the relaxation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-01 James M. Scott , M. Paul Laiu , Cory D. Hauck

A stability and bifurcation analysis of a kinetic equation indicates that the flocking bifurcation of the two-dimensional Vicsek model exhibits an interplay between parabolic and hyperbolic behavior. For box sizes smaller than a certain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-12 L. L. Bonilla , C. Trenado

In this work, we initiate the study of controlling nonlinear Klein-Gordon chains and lattices through their emergent collective flocking behavior. By constructing appropriate feedback control mechanisms, we demonstrate that any physically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Sarah Strikwerda , Hung Vinh Tran , Minh-Binh Tran

The Vicsek model (Vicsek et al. 1995) is a very popular minimalist model to study active matter with a number of applications to biological systems at different length scales. With its off-lattice implementation and periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-07 Andreas Kuhn , Sabine C. Fischer

The emerging collective motions of swarms of interacting agents are a subject of great interest in application areas ranging from biology to physics and robotics. In this paper, we conduct a careful analysis of the collective dynamics of a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-04 Klementyna Szwaykowska , Luis Mier-y-Teran Romero , Ira B. Schwartz

The study of collective behavior in multi-agent systems has attracted the attention of many researchers due to its wide range of applications. Among them, the Cucker-Smale model was developed to study the phenomenon of flocking, and various…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Jong-Ho Kim , Young Ju Lee , Jea-Hyun Park

We present existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence results for some kinetic equations motivated by models for the collective behavior of large groups of individuals. Models of this kind have been recently proposed to study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-07 José A. Cañizo , José A. Carrillo , Jesús Rosado

Collective movement is observed widely in nature, where individuals interact locally to produce globally ordered, coherent motion. In typical models of collective motion, each individual takes the average direction of multiple neighbors,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-23 Yogesh Kumar KC , Arshed Nabeel , Srikanth Iyer , Vishwesha Guttal

The Cucker-Smale flocking model belongs to a wide class of kinetic models that describe a collective motion of interacting particles that exhibit some specific tendency e.g. to aggregate, flock or disperse. The paper examines the kinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Piotr B. Mucha , Jan Peszek

We derive a sufficient condition for asymptotic flocking in the Cucker-Smale model with self-delay (also called reaction delay) and with non-symmetric interaction weights. The condition prescribes smallness of the delay length relative to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Jan Haskovec

We numerically elucidate the microscopic mechanisms controlling the relaxation dynamics of a three-dimensional lattice glass model that has static properties compatible with the approach to a random first-order transition. At low…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-09 Yoshihiko Nishikawa , Ludovic Berthier

Multi-species BGK models describe the dynamics of rarefied gases with constituent particles of different elements or compounds with potentially non-trivial velocity distributions. In this paper, moment equations for the bulk velocities,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Evan Habbershaw , Ryan S. Glasby , Jeffrey R. Haack , Cory D. Hauck , Steven M. Wise

We investigate the long-term relaxation of one-dimensional (${1D}$) self-gravitating systems, using both kinetic theory and $N$-body simulations. We consider thermal and Plummer equilibria, with and without collective effects. All…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-11 Mathieu Roule , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This paper deals with the convergence time analysis of a class of fixed-time stable systems with the aim to provide a new non-conservative upper bound for its settling time. Our contribution is fourfold. First, we revisit the well-known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-23 R. Aldana-López , D. Gómez-Gutiérrez , E. Jiménez-Rodríguez , J. D. Sánchez-Torres , M. Defoort

We study the large time behavior of a system of interacting agents modeling the relaxation of a large swarm of robots, whose task is to uniformly cover a portion of the domain by communicating with each other in terms of their distance. To…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Ferdinando Auricchio , Massimo Carraturo , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

We propose an approach to directly estimate the moments or marginals for a high-dimensional equilibrium distribution in statistical mechanics, via solving the high-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation in terms of low-order cluster moments or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Yian Chen , Yuehaw Khoo , Lek-Heng Lim

Collective behavior in biological systems was first captured by the Vicsek model, in which particles align their velocities in the average direction of neighbors, leading to coherent motion and showing an order-disorder transition. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Mohit Gaur , Arnab Saha , Subhajit Paul

We present a model of soft active particles that leads to a rich array of collective behavior found also in dense biological swarms of bacteria and other unicellular organisms. Our model uses only local interactions, such as Vicsek-type…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-13 Ruben van Drongelen , Anshuman Pal , Carl P. Goodrich , Timon Idema

We use convex relaxation techniques to produce lower bounds on the optimal value of subset selection problems and generate good approximate solutions. We then explicitly bound the quality of these relaxations by studying the approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-21 Francis Bach , Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu , Alexandre d'Aspremont

Dynamical properties of two-component mass-imbalanced few-fermion systems confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap following a sudden quench of interactions are studied. It is assumed that initially the system is prepared in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-21 Dillip K. Nandy , Tomasz Sowiński