Emergent dynamics of Cucker–Smale flocking particles in a random environment
Emergent dynamics of Cucker–Smale flocking particles in a random environment
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jde.2016.11.017
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发表时间:
2017-02
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Seung‐Yeal Ha;J. Jeong;S. E. Noh;Qinghua Xiao;Xiongtao Zhang
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作者:
Seung‐Yeal Ha;J. Jeong;S. E. Noh;Qinghua Xiao;Xiongtao Zhang
We present a new kinetic Cucker–Smale–Fokker–Planck (CS-FP) type equation with a degenerate diffusion, which describes the dynamics for an ensemble of infinitely many Cucker–Smale particles in a random environment. The asymptotic dynamics of the CS-FP equation exhibits a threshold-like phenomenon depending on the relative strength between the coupling strength and the noise strength. In the small coupling regime, the noise effect becomes dominant, which induces the velocity variance to increase to infinity exponentially fast. In contrast, the velocity alignment effect is strong in the large coupling regime, and the velocity variance tends to zero exponentially fast. We present the global existence of classical solutions to the CS-FP equation for a sufficiently smooth initial datum without smallness in its size. For the kinetic CS-FP equation with a metric dependent communication weight, we provide a uniform-in-time mean-field limit from the stochastic CS-model to the kinetic CS-FP equation without convergence rate.