Ordered, Disordered and Partially Synchronized Schools of Fish

Björn Birnir; Baldvin Einarsson; Luis L. Bonilla; Jorge Cornejo-Donoso

doi:10.1515/ijnsns-2016-0156

Published by De Gruyter February 16, 2017

Ordered, Disordered and Partially Synchronized Schools of Fish

Björn Birnir , Baldvin Einarsson , Luis L. Bonilla and Jorge Cornejo-Donoso

From the journal International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnsns-2016-0156

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Abstract

We study the properties of an ODE description of schools of fish (B. Birnir, An ODE model of the motion of pelagic fish, J. Stat. Phys. 128(1/2) (2007), 535–568.) and how they change in the presence of a random acceleration. The model can be reduced to one ODE for the direction of the velocity of a generic fish and another ODE for its speed. These equations contain the mean speed vˉ and a Kuramoto order parameter r for the phases of the fish velocities. In this paper, we give a complete qualitative analysis of the system for large number of particles. We show that the stationary solutions of the ODEs consist of an incoherent unstable solution with r=vˉ=0 and a globally stable solution with r=1 and a constant vˉ>0. In the latter solution, all the fish move uniformly in the same direction with vˉ and the direction of motion determined by the initial configuration of the school. This is called the “migratory solution”. In the second part of the paper, the directional headings of the particles are perturbed, in two distinct ways, and the speeds accelerated in order to obtain two distinct classes of non-stationary, complex solutions. We show that the perturbed systems have similar behavior as the unperturbed one, and derive the resulting constant value of the average speed, verifying the numerical observations. Finally, we show that the system exhibits a similar bifurcation to that in Vicsek and Czirok (T. Vicsek, A. Czirók, E. Ben-Jacob, I. Cohen and O. Shochet, Novel type of phase transition in a system of self-driven particles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75(6) (Aug 1995), 1226–1229.) between phases of synchronization and disorder. Either increasing the variance of the Brownian angular noise, or decreasing the turning rate, or coupling between the particles, cause a similar phase transition. These perturbed models represent a more realistic view of schools of fish found in nature. We apply the theory to compute the order parameter for a simulation of the Chile-Peru anchovy fishery.

Keywords: fish schools; synchronization; order parameters

MSC 2010: 37F99; 32H50

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Received: 2016-10-24

Accepted: 2016-12-29

Published Online: 2017-2-16

Published in Print: 2017-4-1

Ordered, Disordered and Partially Synchronized Schools of Fish

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