Foraging Fruit Flies: Lagrangian and Eulerian Descriptions of Insect Swarming
In this work, I seek to model swarms of fruit flies, drosophila melanogaster, whose flights are characterized by straight flight segments interrupted by rapid turns called saccades. These flights are reminiscent of Levy-distributed random walks which are known to lead to efficient search behavior. I...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2006
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| Online Access: | https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/183 https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=hmc_theses |