Social Behavior, Mixing, And The Evolution Of Schooling

Abstract

Swimming organisms adjust their behavior in response to environmental conditions and form structures such as patches, swarms, and schools. Disadvantages of these tendencies include tougher competition for food, the attraction of predators; some hydrodynamic disadvantages -- turbulent wakes disrupt movement, and more energy is required to swim, etc. There are several advantages however, such as enhanced reproduction, predator avoidance, and the easier search for prey; some hydrodynamic advantages -- extra turbulence brings higher encounter rates, and coordinated swimming. Here, we study a model for such organisms' behavior.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 11, 2011
Accession Number
ADA557277

Entities

People

  • Emma Boland
  • Glenn R. Flierl
  • Kiori Obuse

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advection
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Competition
  • Differential Equations
  • Diffusion
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Diffusivity
  • Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Human Behavior
  • Mixing
  • Personal Information Managers
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Simulations
  • Swimming
  • Weighting Functions

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Marine Ecotoxicology
  • Systems Analysis and Design