Flocks, herds, and schools: A quantitative theory of flocking
Flocks, herds, and schools: A quantitative theory of flocking
We present a quantitative continuum theory of ``flocking'': the collective coherent motion of large numbers of self-propelled organisms. In agreement with everyday experience, our model predicts the existence of an ``ordered phase'' of flocks, in which all members of even an arbitrarily large flock move together with the same mean …