Weak Solutions to an Euler Alignment System in a Bounded Domain

Abstract

Euler alignment systems appear as hydrodynamic limits of interacting self-propelled particle systems such as the (generalized) Cucker-Smale model. In this work, we study weak solutions to an Euler alignment system on smooth, bounded domains. This particular Euler alignment system includes singular alignment, attraction, and repulsion interaction kernels which correspond to a Yukawa potential. We also include a confinement potential and self-propulsion. We embed the problem into an abstract Euler system to conclude that infinitely many weak solutions exist. We further show that we can construct solutions satisfying bounds on an energy quantity, and that the solutions satisfy a weak-strong uniqueness principle. Finally, we present an addition of leader-agents governed by controlled ODEs, and modification of the interactions to be Bessel potentials of fractional order s > 2.