Decay of periodic entropy solutions to Euler-alignment systems with non-constant kernel

Abstract

We consider a hydrodynamic model of flocking-type with pressure on the torus, with integrable interaction kernel and density bounded away from zero. We prove that, if an entropy weak solution exists, then its $L^2$ norm decays exponentially fast in time towards the mean values on the period. The proof relies on the study of a suitable energy functional that combines a strictly convex entropy for the system and a potential term, and this allows us to treat the nonlocal source term for a class of strictly positive convolution kernels in $L^1$.