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In this paper, we review recent developments on the derivation and properties of macroscopic models of collective motion and self-organization. The starting point is a model of self-propelled particles interacting with its neighbors through…

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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

We consider self-propelled rigid-bodies interacting through local body-attitude alignment modelled by stochastic differential equations. We derive a hydrodynamic model of this system at large spatio-temporal scales and particle numbers in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle

We derive from first principles a three-dimensional theory of self-propelled particle swarming in a viscous fluid environment. Our model predicts emergent collective behavior that depends critically on fluid opacity, mechanism of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-12 Yao-Li Chuang , M. R. D'Orsogna , T. Chou

Fish schooling is often modeled with self-propelled particles subject to phenomenological behavioral rules. Although fish are known to sense and exploit flow features, these models usually neglect hydrodynamics. Here, we propose a novel…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Audrey Filella , François Nadal , Clément Sire , Eva Kanso , Christophe Eloy

In this paper, we study the macroscopic limit of a new model of collective displacement. The model, called PTWA, is a combination of the Vicsek alignment model and the Persistent Turning Walker (PTW) model of motion by curvature control.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Sébastien Motsch

In this paper, we study a nonlinear system of first order partial differential equations describing the macroscopic behavior of an ensemble of interacting self-propelled rigid bodies. Such system may be relevant for the modelling of bird…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Ariane Trescases

The conventional no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at a contact line. This is a main challenge in numerical simulations of two-phase flows with moving contact lines. We derive a two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-23 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

A unified Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework is proposed to simulate interaction dynamics involving thin shells modeled by a reduced-dimensional, single-layer particle discretization, as opposed to full-dimensional SPH solids.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Dong Wu , Shuaihao Zhang , Weiyi Kong , Xiangyu Hu

The self-organized kinetic system for body attitude coordination (SOKB) was recently derived by Degond et al. (Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 27(6), 1005-1049, 2017). This system describe a new collective motion for multi-agents dynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Naping Guo , Yi-Long Luo

We derive macroscopic dynamics for self-propelled particles in a fluid. The starting point is a coupled Vicsek-Stokes system. The Vicsek model describes self-propelled agents interacting through alignment. It provides a phenomenological…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-20 Pierre Degond , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Fabien Vergnet , Hui Yu

This article analyzes the formulation of space-time continuous hyperbolic hydrodynamic models for systems of interacting particles moving on a lattice, by connecting their local stochastic lattice dynamics to the formulation of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-11 Massimiliano Giona

We consider a system of self-propelled agents interacting through body attitude coordination in arbitrary dimension $n \geq 3$. We derive the formal kinetic and hydrodynamic limits for this model. Previous literature was restricted to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Pierre Degond , Antoine Diez , Amic Frouvelle

In this paper, we derive a kinetic description of swarming particle dynamics in an interacting multi-agent system featuring emerging leaders and followers. Agents are classically characterized by their position and velocity plus a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Emiliano Cristiani , Nadia Loy , Marta Menci , Andrea Tosin

We develop a general hydrodynamic theory describing a system of interacting actively propelling particles of arbitrary shape suspended in a viscous fluid. We model the active part of the particle motion using a slip velocity prescribed on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-15 Bhargav Rallabandi , Fan Yang , Howard A. Stone

Transport and mixing of gas species are of particular interest in planetary environments, where interactions among multiple species can occur within confined or porous media. In this work, we present a novel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Luca Maggioni , Matteo Teodori , Gianfranco Magni , Michelangelo Formisano , Maria Cristina De Sanctis , Francesca Altieri

A new consistent, spatially adaptive, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) is presented. The method combines several attributes that have not been simultaneously satisfied by other SPH methods.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Wei Hu , Guannan Guo , Xiaozhe Hu , Dan Negrut , Zhijie Xu , Wenxiao Pan

We derive a quantitative version of the hydrodynamic limit for an interacting particle system inspired by integrate-and-fire neuron models. More precisely, we show that the $L^2$-speed of convergence of the empirical density of states in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Julian Amorim , Milton Jara , Yangrui Xiang

We present a hydrodynamic simulation system using the GPU compute shaders of DirectX for simulating virtual agent behaviors and navigation inside a smoothed particle hydrodynamical (SPH) fluid environment with real-time water mesh surface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Xi Liu , Gizem Kayar , Ken Perlin
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