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In this paper, we present the hydrodynamic limit of a multiscale system describing the dynamics of two populations of agents with alignment interactions and the effect of an internal variable. It consists of a kinetic equation coupled with an Euler-type equation inspired by the thermomechanical Cucker--Smale (TCS) model. We propose a novel drag force for the fluid-particle interaction reminiscent of Stokes law. Whilst the macroscopic species is regarded as a self-organized background fluid that affects the kinetic species, the latter is assumed sparse and does not affect the macroscopic dynamics. We propose two hyperbolic scalings, in terms of a strong and weak relaxation regime of the internal variable towards the background population. Under each regime, we prove the rigorous hydrodynamic limit towards a coupled system composed of two Euler-type equations. Inertial effects of momentum and internal variable in the kinetic species disappear for strong relaxation, whereas a nontrivial dynamics for the internal variable appears for weak relaxation. Our analysis covers both the case of Lipschitz and weakly singular influence functions
We introduce a mean field game model for pedestrians moving in a given domain and choosing their trajectories so as to minimize a cost including a penalization on the difference between their own velocity and that of the other agents they meet. We prove existence of an equilibrium in a Lagrangian setting by using its variational structure, and then study its properties and regularity.
We address the design of decentralized feedback control laws inducing consensus and prescribed spatial patterns over a singular interacting particle system of Cucker-Smale type. The control design consists of a feedback term regulating the distance between each agent and pre-assigned subset of neighbours. Such a design represents a multidimensional extension of existing control laws for 1d platoon formation control. For the proposed controller we study consensus emergence, collision-avoidance and formation control features in terms of energy estimates for the closed-loop system. Numerical experiments in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions assess the different features of the proposed design.
We show how to obtain general nonlinear aggregation-diffusion models, including Keller-Segel type models with nonlinear diffusions, as relaxations from nonlocal compressible Euler-type hydrodynamic systems via the relative entropy method. We discuss the assumptions on the confinement and interaction potentials depending on the relative energy of the free energy functional allowing for this relaxation limit to hold. We deal with weak solutions for the nonlocal compressible Euler-type systems and strong solutions for the limiting aggregation-diffusion equations. Finally, we show the existence of weak solutions to the nonlocal compressible Euler-type systems satisfying the needed properties for completeness sake.
We investigate the traveling wave solutions of a three-species system involving a single predator and a pair of strong-weak competing preys. Our results show how the predation may affect this dynamics. More precisely, we describe several situations where the environment is initially inhabited by the predator and by either one of the two preys. When the weak competing prey is an aboriginal species, we show that there exist traveling waves where the strong prey invades the environment and either replaces its weak counterpart, or more surprisingly the three species eventually co-exist. Furthermore, depending on the parameters, we can also construct traveling waves where the weaker prey actually invades the environment initially inhabited by its strong competitor and the predator. Finally, our results on the existence of traveling waves are sharp, in the sense that we find the minimal wave speed in all those situations.
This work is devoted to the study of a relaxation limit of the so-called aggregation equation with a pointy potential in one dimensional space. The aggregation equation is by now widely used to model the dynamics of a density of individuals attracting each other through a potential. When this potential is pointy, solutions are known to blow up in final time. For this reason, measure-valued solutions have been defined. In this paper, we investigate an approximation of such measure-valued solutions thanks to a relaxation limit in the spirit of Jin and Xin. We study the convergence of this approximation and give a rigorous estimate of the speed of convergence in one dimension with the Newtonian potential. We also investigate the numerical discretization of this relaxation limit by uniformly accurate schemes.