Trail formation based on directed pheromone deposition

DOI10.1007/S00285-012-0529-6zbMATH Open1286.35238arXiv1108.3495OpenAlexW3098981757WikidataQ44605422 ScholiaQ44605422MaRDI QIDQ1949311FDOQ1949311

Sebastien Motsch, Pierre Degond, Emmanuel Boissard

Publication date: 7 May 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose an Individual-Based Model of ant-trail formation. The ants are modeled as self-propelled particles which deposit directed pheromones and interact with them through alignment interaction. The directed pheromones intend to model pieces of trails, while the alignment interaction translates the tendency for an ant to follow a trail when it meets it. Thanks to adequate quantitative descriptors of the trail patterns, the existence of a phase transition as the ant-pheromone interaction frequency is increased can be evidenced. Finally, we propose both kinetic and fluid descriptions of this model and analyze the capabilities of the fluid model to develop trail patterns. We observe that the development of patterns by fluid models require extra trail amplification mechanisms that are not needed at the Individual-Based Model level.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3495

zbMATH Keywords

pattern formationindividual-based modelkinetic modelsfluid modelsself-propelled particlesalignment interactiondirected pheromonespheromone depositiontrail detection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Animal behavior (92D50) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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