First-order reduction and emergent behavior of the one-dimensional kinetic Cucker-Smale equation

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the kinetic description of the first-order Cucker-Smale (CS) flocking model on the real line. We reveal the equivalent relation between the measure-valued solution to the first- and second-order kinetic CS equations. The emergent behavior of the first-order kinetic CS equation and the characterization of the asymptotic solution are studied. We also provide the equivalent relation between classical/measure-valued solutions to the first-order kinetic CS equation and a classical solution to the second-order hydrodynamic CS equations, and present the corresponding analysis on the large-time behavior. The numerical experiments support our analysis and provide an efficient algorithm to obtain the asymptotic solution without simulating the model for a long time.