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We study one-dimensional Eulerian dynamics with nonlocal alignment interactions, featuring strong short-range alignment, and long-range misalignment. Compared with the well-studied Euler-alignment system, the presence of the misalignment…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Qianyun Miao , Changhui Tan , Liutang Xue

Collective motion and self-organization of interacting particles, such as flocking and swarming, can be viewed as nonequilibrium analogues of collective dynamics in gases. Motivated by the analogy between gas mixtures and Cucker--Smale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ziming Bian , Seung-Yeal Ha , Tommaso Ruggeri , Qinghua Xiao

The goal of this note is to study limiting behavior of a self-organized continuous flock evolving according to the 1D hydrodynamic Euler Alignment model. We provide a series of quantitative estimates that show how far the density of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Trevor M. Leslie , Roman Shvydkoy

Thermodynamics plays an important role in gravitational theories. It is a principle independent of the gravitational dynamics, and there is still no rigorous proof to show that it is consistent with the dynamical principle. We consider a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-27 Jie Jiang , Xiongjun Fang , Sijie Gao

Entropy plays a key role in statistical physics of complex systems, which in general exhibit diverse aspects of emergence on different scales. However, it still remains not fully resolved how entropy varies with the coarse-graining level…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-07 Segun Goh , Jungzae Choi , MooYoung Choi , Byung-Gook Yoon

We establish the global existence of weak entropy solutions for 1D isentropic gas dynamics with general pressure laws ($\gamma > 1$). To address vacuum degeneracy, we introduce a novel structural regularization via a "Synchronized Dual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Kewang Chen

We consider the compressible Euler system with a family of nonlinear velocity alignments. The system is a nonlinear extension of the Euler-alignment system in collective dynamics. We show the asymptotic emergent phenomena of the system:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-02 McKenzie Black , Changhui Tan

The conservation of the enstrophy ($L^2$ norm of the vorticity $\omega$) plays an essential role in the physics and mathematics of two-dimensional (2D) Euler fluids. Generalizing to compressible ideal (inviscid and barotropic) fluids, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-15 Zensho Yoshida , Philip J. Morrison

Deutsch and Aguirre have recently shown that the solutions of certain dynamical systems typically contain a point of minimum size that they identify as an entropy minimum and from which the size and entropy increase to infinity in both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 Julian Barbour

We show that the Euler system of gas dynamics in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, with positive far field density and arbitrary far field entropy, admits infinitely many steady solutions with compactly supported velocity. The same proof yields a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Francesco Fanelli , Eduard Feireisl

Entropy stabilization of the compressible Euler system is achieved by adapting the averages that are applied to the density and internal energy variables. The approach achieves non-linear robustness despite the use of simplified symmetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh

We investigate the initial-value problem for the relativistic Euler equations governing isothermal perfect fluid flows, and generalize an approach introduced by LeFloch and Shelukhin in the non-relativistic setting. We establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Philippe G. LeFloch , Mitsuru Yamazaki

We study the large-time behavior of hydrodynamic model which describes the collective behavior of continuum of agents, driven by pairwise alignment interactions with additional external potential forcing. The external force tends to compete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Ruiwen Shu , Eitan Tadmor

Some classical and recent results on the Euler equations governing perfect (incompressible and inviscid) fluid motion are collected and reviewed, with some small novelties scattered throughout. The perspective and emphasis will be given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi

Atmospheric systems incorporating thermal dynamics must be stable with respect to both energy and entropy. While energy conservation can be enforced via the preservation of the skew-symmetric structure of the Hamiltonian form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Kieran Ricardo , David Lee , Kenneth Duru

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem of the multi-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Euler system for two-phase flow motion, which consists of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations and the isothermal compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Hai-Liang Li , Ling-Yun Shou

We study thermodynamic formalism of dynamical systems with non-uniform structure. Precisely, we obtain the uniqueness of equilibrium states for a family of non-uniformly expansive flows by generalizing Climenhaga-Thompson's orbit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Tianyu Wang , Weisheng Wu

We derive a new method to infer from data the out-of-equilibrium alignment dynamics of collectively moving animal groups, by considering the maximum entropy distribution consistent with temporal and spatial correlations of flight direction.…

We construct the complete set of orders of growth and we define on it the generalized entropy of a dynamical systems. With this object we provide a framework where we can study the separation of orbits of a map beyond the scope of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Javier Correa , Enrique R. Pujals

The cohesive collective motion (flocking, swarming) of autonomous agents is ubiquitously observed and exploited in both natural and man-made settings, thus, minimal models for its description are essential. In a model with continuous space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-12 Illes J. Farkas , Jeromos Kun , Yi Jin , Gaoqi He , Mingliang Xu