Numerical approximation of a coagulation-fragmentation model for animal group size statistics

DOI10.3934/NHM.2017009zbMATH Open1365.45003arXiv1604.06500OpenAlexW2495555892MaRDI QIDQ2396321FDOQ2396321

Authors: Maximilian Engel, Pierre Degond Error creating thumbnail:

Publication date: 8 June 2017

Published in: Networks and Heterogeneous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study numerically a coagulation-fragmentation model derived by Niwa and further elaborated by Degond et al., where a unique equilibrium distribution of group sizes is shown to exist in both cases of continuous and discrete group size distributions. We provide a numerical investigation of these equilibria using three different methods to approximate the equilibrium: a recursive algorithm based on the work of Ma et. al., a Newton method and the resolution of the time-dependent problem. All three schemes are validated by showing that they approximate the predicted small and large size asymptotic behaviour of the equilibrium accurately. The recursive algorithm is used to investigate the transition from discrete to continuous size distributions and the time evolution scheme is exploited to show uniform convergence to equilibrium in time and to determine convergence rates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06500

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zbMATH Keywords

Euler schemeNewton methodnumericsconvergence to equilibriumfish schoolscoagulation-fragmentation equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Animal behavior (92D50) Integro-ordinary differential equations (45J05) Newton-type methods (49M15) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B99)

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