Time periodic flocking phenomena
Speaker:
Carolina Trenado Yuste, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Date and Time:
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 10:45am to 11:05am
Location:
Fields Institute, Stewart Library
Abstract:
Animals having a trend to align their velocities to an average of their neighbors' may flock as illustrated by the Vicsek-model of self-propelled particles and its variants. If, in addition, they feel a systematic trend, the result may be a periodic adjustment of the flock. This is demonstrated by analyzing a modified Vicsek-model and its corresponding Ihle-Enskog kinetic equation valid in the limit of infinitely many particles, $N\rightarrow\infty$. We have carried out a stability and bifurcation analysis of the order-disorder transition to a time periodic solution characterized by a new complex-valued order parameter. Direct Brownian simulations confirm our theoretical findings.