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This paper is concerned with the derivation and analysis of hydrodynamic models for systems of self-propelled particles subject to alignment interaction and attraction-repulsion. The starting point is the kinetic model considered in earlier work of Degond & Motsch with the addition of an attraction-repulsion interaction potential. Introducing different scalings than in Degond & Motsch, the non-local effects of the alignment and attraction-repulsion interactions can be kept in the hydrodynamic limit and result in extra pressure, viscosity terms and capillary force. The systems are shown to be symmetrizable hyperbolic systems with viscosity terms. A local-in-time existence result is proved in the 2D case for the viscous model and in the 3D case for the inviscid model. The proof relies on the energy method.

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The well-posedness of the three space dimensional Prandtl equations is studied under some constraint on its flow structure. Together with the instability result given in [28], it gives an almost necessary and sufficient structural condition for the stability of the three-dimensional Prandtl equations. It reveals that the classical Burgers equation plays an important role in determining this type of flow with special structure, that avoids the appearance of the secondary flow, an unstabilizing factor in the three-dimensional Prandtl boundary layers. And the sufficiency of the monotonicity condition on the tangential velocity field for the existence of solutions to the Prandtl boundary layer equations is illustrated in the three-dimensional setting. Moreover, it is shown that this structured flow is linearly stable for any smooth three-dimensional perturbation.

We show that a family $\mathcal{F}$ of analytic functions in the unit disk ${\mathbb{D}}$ all of whose zeros have multiplicity at least$k$and which satisfy a condition of the form $$f^n(z)f^{(k)}(xz)\ne1$$ for all $z\in{\mathbb{D}}$ and $f\in\mathcal{F}$ (where$n$≥3,$k$≥1 and 0<|$x$|≤1) is normal at the origin. The proof relies on a modification of Nevanlinna theory in combination with the Zalcman–Pang rescaling method. Furthermore we prove the corresponding Picard-type theorem for entire functions and some generalizations.