- Series
- PDE Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Lenya Ryzhik – Stanford University – ryzhik@math.stanford.edu – http://math.stanford.edu/~ryzhik/
- Organizer
- Yao Yao
The Cucker-Smale system is a popular model of collective behavior of interacting agents, used, in particular, to model bird flocking and fish swarming. The underlying premise is the tendency for a local alignment of the bird (or fish, or ...) velocities. The Euler-Cucker-Smale system is an effective macroscopic PDE limit of such particle systems. It has the form of the pressureless Euler equations with a non-linear density-dependent alignment term. The alignment term is a non-linear version of the fractional Laplacian to a power alpha in (0,1). It is known that the corresponding Burgers' equation with a linear dissipation of this type develops shocks in a finite time. We show that nonlinearity enhances the dissipation, and the solutions stay globally regular for all alpha in (0,1): the dynamics is regularized due to the nonlinear nature of the alignment. This is a joint work with T. Do, A.Kiselev and C. Tan.