Print Email Facebook Twitter On discrete and continuous state adaptive network models Title On discrete and continuous state adaptive network models: with an application to self-organisation in swarming systems Author van de Kamp, Carsten T. (TU Delft Applied Sciences; TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Idema, Timon (mentor) Dubbeldam, Johan (mentor) Thijssen, Jos (graduation committee) Nane, Tina (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Applied Mathematics | Applied Physics Date 2019-07-14 Abstract We consider adaptive network models with discrete and continuous state sets obeying dynamical rules that enable application to swarming systems. The 2-state adaptive network contains a supercritical pitchfork bifurcation in the transition between ordered and disordered stationary solutions. We derive an adaptive network model that works on a continuous state set and apply it to swarming motion in both a mean field and a moment closure approximation. In numerical solutions of the mean field approximation the relation between the variance of the ordered stationary distributions and the system parameters is given by a square root function. Cauchy distributions form a good fit to these steady state distributions, although they are not the analytic stationary solutions. We show that in numerical solutions of the moment closure approximation a bistable region is formed, in which the initial condition determines if the system ends up in an ordered or a disordered state. Further research could focus on finding the exact details of the corresponding subcritical pitchfork and saddle-node bifurcations and comparing the derived models to real-life swarming systems. Subject Adaptive NetworksDifferential EquationsModellingBifurcation AnalysisPartial Differential EquationsComplex NetworksComplex Adaptive SystemsSwarmingSelf-organisationCollective motion To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b4b4396-4288-4c89-b8a4-1e52c75d83bc Part of collection Student theses Document type bachelor thesis Rights © 2019 Carsten T. van de Kamp Files PDF Thesis_Carsten_van_de_Kamp.pdf 1.16 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9b4b4396-4288-4c89-b8a4-1e52c75d83bc/datastream/OBJ/view