Phase transition and diffusion among socially interacting self-propelled agents

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DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2014.19.1249zbMATH Open1304.35412arXiv1207.1926OpenAlexW2963847907MaRDI QIDQ478259FDOQ478259

Alethea Barbaro, Pierre Degond

Publication date: 3 December 2014

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a hydrodynamic model of swarming behavior derived from the kinetic description of a particle system combining a noisy Cucker-Smale consensus force and self-propulsion. In the large self-propulsion force limit, we provide evidence of a phase transition from disordered to ordered motion which manifests itself as a change of type of the limit model (from hyperbolic to diffusive) at the crossing of a critical noise intensity. In the hyperbolic regime, the resulting model, referred to as the `Self-Organized Hydrodynamics (SOH)', consists of a system of compressible Euler equations with a speed constraint. We show that the range of SOH models obtained by this limit is restricted. To waive this restriction, we compute the Navier-Stokes diffusive corrections to the hydrodynamic model. Adding these diffusive corrections, the limit of a large propulsion force yields unrestricted SOH models and offers an alternative to the derivation of the SOH using kinetic models with speed constraints.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1926





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