Senior Theses

Publication Date

5-24-2024

Document Type

Thesis (Open Access)

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Physics

Department

Physics

Faculty Advisor(s)

Joelle Murray

Subject Categories

Physics

Comments

Insect swarms exhibit collective behaviors that emerge from the interactions between individual insects. In midges, these interactions are thought to be governed by long-range acoustic signals from other insects in the swarm. A model developed by Gorbonos et al. [1], [2] adds the long-range acoustic behavior into an equation of motion to describe the midge swarm dynamics. This thesis expands on Gorbonos’ model by considering various subsets of insect-insect interactions, and investigates how diffusion and polarization parameters vary with the number of interactions.

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