Fluid dynamic description of flocking via the Povzner-Boltzmann equation (Q617529)

The authors derive Euler-type equations for a populations of agents mutually interacting at the kinetic level in such a way that their mutual velocities are dissipated along the joining line position.The underlying kinetic model is the Povzner equation which describes long-range elastic collisions between molecules lying in different positions in space, suitable corrected to take into account the dissipation. Owing to a previous result, one can resort to the standard fractional step method to obtain the modified system of Euler equations, in which new correction terms are present in the equation for velocity and energy. These corrections are non-local and their strength depends on a known interaction function. The evolution of macroscopic quantities is driven by the dissipation of energy, which forces the evolution of the system towards a configuration in which the mean velocity is constant and the internal energy vanishes.