Asymptotic flocking dynamics of Cucker-Smale particles immersed in compressible fluids (Q476559)

This is an excellent paper on the coupled Cucker-Smale-Navier-Stokes system describing the model for an ensemble flocking particles surrounded by a compressible fluid. From authors' summary: they ``present a global existence theory and time-asymptotic behavior for the proposed model in the spatial periodic domain \({\mathbb{T}}^3\). Our model consists of the kinetic Cucker-Smale model for flocking particles and the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations for fluids, and these two models are coupled through a drag force, which is responsible for the asymptotic alignment between particles and fluid. For the asymptotic flocking behavior, we explicitly construct a Lyapunov functional measuring the deviation from the asymptotic flocking states. For a large viscosity and small initial data, we show that the velocities of Cucker-Smale particles and fluids are asymptotically aligned to the common velocity.''