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Main Authors: Goudon, Thierry, Mellet, Antoine
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01721
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author Goudon, Thierry
Mellet, Antoine
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Mellet, Antoine
contents We study the collective dynamics of a population of particles/organisms subject to self-consistent attraction-repulsion interactions and an external velocity field. The starting point of our analysis is a mean-field kinetic model and we investigate the singular limit corresponding to strong interaction forces. For well-prepared initial data, we show that the population asymptotically concentrates within a domain $Ω(t)=Ω_0+X(t)$ whose shape $Ω_0$ is determined by the minimization of the interaction energy while the evolution of the domain's center of mass $X(t)$ is determined by the external force field. In addition, we show that the internal flow of organisms within this moving domain is described by a classical hydrodynamic model (the lake equation). The first part of our result relies only on the existence and uniqueness of minimizers for the interaction energy and holds for rather general interaction kernels. The second part is proved using a modulated energy method under more restrictive conditions on the nature of the interactions, and assuming that the limiting lake equation admits strong solutions.
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spellingShingle Constrained hydrodynamic flocking models in the limit of large attraction-repulsion interactions
Goudon, Thierry
Mellet, Antoine
Analysis of PDEs
We study the collective dynamics of a population of particles/organisms subject to self-consistent attraction-repulsion interactions and an external velocity field. The starting point of our analysis is a mean-field kinetic model and we investigate the singular limit corresponding to strong interaction forces. For well-prepared initial data, we show that the population asymptotically concentrates within a domain $Ω(t)=Ω_0+X(t)$ whose shape $Ω_0$ is determined by the minimization of the interaction energy while the evolution of the domain's center of mass $X(t)$ is determined by the external force field. In addition, we show that the internal flow of organisms within this moving domain is described by a classical hydrodynamic model (the lake equation). The first part of our result relies only on the existence and uniqueness of minimizers for the interaction energy and holds for rather general interaction kernels. The second part is proved using a modulated energy method under more restrictive conditions on the nature of the interactions, and assuming that the limiting lake equation admits strong solutions.
title Constrained hydrodynamic flocking models in the limit of large attraction-repulsion interactions
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01721