Collective motion of organisms in three dimensions Export

@article{citeulike:4860920, abstract = {We study a model of flocking in order to describe the transitions during thecollective motion of organisms in three dimensions (e.g., birds). In this modelthe particles representing the organisms are self-propelled, i.e., they movewith the same absolute velocity. In addition, the particles locally interact bychoosing at each time step the average direction of motion of their neighborsand the effects of fluctuations are taken into account as well. We present thefirst results for large scale flocking in the presence of noise in threedimensions. We show that depending on the control parameters both disorderedand long-range ordered phases can be observed. The corresponding phase diagramhas a number of features which are qualitatively different from those typicalfor the analogous equilibrium models.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Czirok, A. and Vicsek, M. and Vicsek, T.}, citeulike-article-id = {4860920}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9902021}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/9902021}, day = {9}, eprint = {physics/9902021}, journal = {Physica A}, keywords = {bird\_flight, birds, collective, crowd, flock, group, physics, steering}, month = {Feb}, pages = {299--304}, posted-at = {2009-06-28 01:14:02}, priority = {2}, title = {Collective motion of organisms in three dimensions}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9902021}, volume = {264}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4860920 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4860920 N2 - We study a model of flocking in order to describe the transitions during thecollective motion of organisms in three dimensions (e.g., birds). In this modelthe particles representing the organisms are self-propelled, i.e., they movewith the same absolute velocity. In addition, the particles locally interact bychoosing at each time step the average direction of motion of their neighborsand the effects of fluctuations are taken into account as well. We present thefirst results for large scale flocking in the presence of noise in threedimensions. We show that depending on the control parameters both disorderedand long-range ordered phases can be observed. The corresponding phase diagramhas a number of features which are qualitatively different from those typicalfor the analogous equilibrium models. JF - Physica A EP - 304 TI - Collective motion of organisms in three dimensions VL - 264 SP - 299 KW - bird_flight KW - birds KW - collective KW - crowd KW - flock KW - group KW - physics KW - steering AU - Czirok, A AU - Vicsek, M AU - Vicsek, T PY - 1999/Feb/09/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9902021 ER -