Eitan Tadmor : A new model for self-organized dynamics

We introduce a new particle-based model for self-organized dynamics which, we argue, addresses several drawbacks of the celebrated Cucker-Smale (C-S) model. The new model does not involve any explicit dependence on the number of agents: only their self-driven geometry in phase space enters the model. It lacks, however, the symmetry property, which is the key for the various recent studies of C-S flocking behavior. To this end, we introduce here a new unifying framework to analyze the phenomenon of flocking for a general class of dynamical systems in the presence of non-symmetric influence matrices. In particular, we prove the emerging behavior of flocking in the proposed model, when the pairwise long-range interactions between its agents decays sufficiently slow.

The methodology presented in this paper is based on the notion of active sets, which carries over from the particle to the kinetic and hydrodynamic descriptions. In particular, we discuss the hydrodynamic description of our new model for self-organized dynamics, and we prove its unconditional flocking for sufficiently slowly decaying influence functions.

• Category: Applied Math and Analysis
• Duration: 01:22:58
• Date:  March 28, 2011 at 4:25 PM
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• Tags:   seminar, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar