TY - JOUR
T1 - A Macroscopic Model for a System of Swarming Agents Using Curvature Control
AU - Degond, Pierre
AU - Motsch, Sébastien
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Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission in the frame of the DEASE project (MEST-CT-2005-021122) and by the French ‘Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)’ in the frame of the contracts ‘Panurge’ (ANR-07-BLAN-0208-03) and ‘Pedigree’ (ANR-08-SYSC-015-01). The work of S. Motsch is partially supported by NSF grants DMS07-07949, DMS10-08397 and FRG07-57227.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - In this paper, we study the macroscopic limit of a new model of collective displacement. The model, called PTWA, is a combination of the Vicsek alignment model (Vicsek et al. in Phys. Rev. Lett. 75(6):1226-1229, 1995) and the Persistent Turning Walker (PTW) model of motion by curvature control (Degond and Motsch in J. Stat. Phys. 131(6):989-1021, 2008; Gautrais et al. in J. Math. Biol. 58(3):429-445, 2009). The PTW model was designed to fit measured trajectories of individual fish (Gautrais et al. in J. Math. Biol. 58(3):429-445, 2009). The PTWA model (Persistent Turning Walker with Alignment) describes the displacements of agents which modify their curvature in order to align with their neighbors. The derivation of its macroscopic limit uses the non-classical notion of generalized collisional invariant introduced in (Degond and Motsch in Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 18(1):1193-1215, 2008). The macroscopic limit of the PTWA model involves two physical quantities, the density and the mean velocity of individuals. It is a system of hyperbolic type but is non-conservative due to a geometric constraint on the velocity. This system has the same form as the macroscopic limit of the Vicsek model (Degond and Motsch in Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 18(1):1193-1215, 2008) (the 'Vicsek hydrodynamics') but for the expression of the model coefficients. The numerical computations show that the numerical values of the coefficients are very close. The 'Vicsek Hydrodynamic model' appears in this way as a more generic macroscopic model of swarming behavior as originally anticipated.
AB - In this paper, we study the macroscopic limit of a new model of collective displacement. The model, called PTWA, is a combination of the Vicsek alignment model (Vicsek et al. in Phys. Rev. Lett. 75(6):1226-1229, 1995) and the Persistent Turning Walker (PTW) model of motion by curvature control (Degond and Motsch in J. Stat. Phys. 131(6):989-1021, 2008; Gautrais et al. in J. Math. Biol. 58(3):429-445, 2009). The PTW model was designed to fit measured trajectories of individual fish (Gautrais et al. in J. Math. Biol. 58(3):429-445, 2009). The PTWA model (Persistent Turning Walker with Alignment) describes the displacements of agents which modify their curvature in order to align with their neighbors. The derivation of its macroscopic limit uses the non-classical notion of generalized collisional invariant introduced in (Degond and Motsch in Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 18(1):1193-1215, 2008). The macroscopic limit of the PTWA model involves two physical quantities, the density and the mean velocity of individuals. It is a system of hyperbolic type but is non-conservative due to a geometric constraint on the velocity. This system has the same form as the macroscopic limit of the Vicsek model (Degond and Motsch in Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 18(1):1193-1215, 2008) (the 'Vicsek hydrodynamics') but for the expression of the model coefficients. The numerical computations show that the numerical values of the coefficients are very close. The 'Vicsek Hydrodynamic model' appears in this way as a more generic macroscopic model of swarming behavior as originally anticipated.
KW - Asymptotic analysis
KW - Collision invariants
KW - Fish behavior
KW - Hydrodynamic limit
KW - Individual based model
KW - Orientation interaction
KW - Persistent Turning Walker model
KW - Vicsek model
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U2 - 10.1007/s10955-011-0201-3
DO - 10.1007/s10955-011-0201-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956210310
SN - 0022-4715
VL - 143
SP - 685
EP - 714
JO - Journal of Statistical Physics
JF - Journal of Statistical Physics
IS - 4
ER -