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We derive the hydrodynamic equations of perfect fluids without boost invariance [1] from kinetic theory. Our approach is to follow the standard derivation of the Vlasov hierarchy based on an a-priori unknown collision functional satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Kevin T. Grosvenor , Niels A. Obers , Subodh P. Patil

We study an agent-based model of self-propelled particles with a velocity-dependent alignment rule. This interaction is orientation weighted and acts along the line connecting neighboring particles. Tuning the alignment strength produces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Bohdan Dobosh , Alexander Yakimenko

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

A one-dimensional flocking model using active Ising spins is studied, where the system evolves through the reinforcement learning approach \textit{via} defining state, action, and cost function for each spin. The orientation of spin with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-02 Anish Kumar , Pawan Kumar Mishra , Riya Singh , Shradha Mishra , Debaprasad Giri

Novel "smectic-P" behavior, in which self-propelled particles form rows and move on average along them, occurs generically within the orientationally-ordered phase of simple models that we simulate. Both apolar (head-tail symmetric) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 Pawel Romanczuk , Hugues Chaté , Leiming Chen , Sandrine Ngo , John Toner

We use a combination of unsupervised clustering and sparsity-promoting inference algorithms to learn locally dominant force balances that explain macroscopic pattern formation in self-organized active particle systems. The self-organized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-28 Dominik Sturm , Suryanarayana Maddu , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

The asymptotic analysis of kinetic models describing the behavior of particles interacting through alignment is performed. We will analyze the asymptotic regime corresponding to large alignment frequency where the alignment effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

We investigate systems of self-propelled particles with alignment interaction. Compared to previous work, the force acting on the particles is not normalized and this modification gives rise to phase transitions from disordered states at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

We consider systems of interacting particles which are described by a second order Langevin equation. The class of equations considered includes the situation where the particle evolution is governed by Hamiltonian dynamics with additional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Fenna Müller , Max von Renesse , Johannes Zimmer

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

We study the long-time hydrodynamic behavior of systems of multi-species which arise from agent-based description of alignment dynamics. The interaction between species is governed by an array of symmetric communication kernels. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jingcheng Lu , Eitan Tadmor

Combining model experiments and theory, we investigate the dense phases of polar active matter beyond the conventional flocking picture. We show that above a critical density flocks assembled from self-propelled colloids arrest their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-18 Geyer Delphine , Martin David , Tailleur Julien , Denis Bartolo

Field control provides a practical route to programmable active matter, yet how weak fields modify non-equilibrium coexistence and interfaces remains unclear. To address this, we study a minimal flocking model of active Potts particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-30 Mintu Karmakar , Matthieu Mangeat , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Heiko Rieger , Raja Paul

We have developed an experimental setup of very simple self-propelled robots to observe collective motion emerging as a result of inelastic collisions only. A circular pool and commercial RC boats were the basis of our first setup, where we…

We study analytically the emergence of spontaneous collective motion within large bidimensional groups of self-propelled particles with noisy local interactions, a schematic model for assemblies of biological organisms. As a central result,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Bertin , Michel Droz , Guillaume Gregoire

We study the structure and phase behavior of a binary mixture where one of the components is self-propelling in nature. The inter-particle interactions in the system were taken from the Asakura-Oosawa model, for colloid-polymer mixtures,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Subir K. Das , Sergei Egorov , Benjamin Trefz , Peter Virnau , Kurt Binder

We numerically study a discretized Vicsek model (DVM) with particles orienting in $q$ possible orientations in two dimensions. The study probes the significance of anisotropic orientation and microscopic interaction on the macroscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Mintu Karmakar , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Raja Paul , Heiko Rieger

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

We study a class of interacting particle systems on $\mathbb{R}$ with two types. Particles evolve by independent jumps sampled from a fixed distribution, with type-dependent jump rates $v_+$, $v_-$ and stochastic type switching driven by…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Sayan Banerjee , Andrew Nguyen

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…

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