Kinetic hierarchy and propagation of chaos in biological swarm models

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2012.05.013MaRDI QIDQ6228232zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Eric Carlen, Robin Chatelin, Pierre Degond, Bernt Wennberg

Publication date 7 October 2011

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Animal behavior (92D50) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21) PDEs in connection with mechanics of particles and systems of particles (35Q70)

Abstract: We consider two models of biological swarm behavior. In these models, pairs of particles interact to adjust their velocities one to each other. In the first process, called 'BDG', they join their average velocity up to some noise. In the second process, called 'CL', one of the two particles tries to join the other one's velocity. This paper establishes the master equations and BBGKY hierarchies of these two processes. It investigates the infinite particle limit of the hierarchies at large time-scale. It shows that the resulting kinetic hierarchy for the CL process does not satisfy propagation of chaos. Numerical simulations indicate that the BDG process has similar behavior to the CL process.

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