Mathematical model of honeycomb construction

DOI10.1007/BF01236891MaRDI QIDQ1082297zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01236891

zbMATH Keywords

bee-bee and bee-wax interactionsdynamical coupled partial differential equationsfast Fourier transform techniquemodel of honeycomb constructionmodified thin-sheet gain schemeparallel comb constructionself-organizationspectral algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for trigonometric approximation and interpolation (65T40) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Animal behavior (92D50)

Review text

We develop a mathematical model and an algorithm for numerical treatment of a model of honeycomb construction in a beehive. The model contains essential features of the bee-bee and bee-wax interactions, and in a qualitative way captures the dynamics of parallel comb construction. The construction is represented by a set of dynamical coupled partial differential equations for the density of bees situated on the hive ceiling, and the quantity of wax distributed by the bees. A spectral algorithm is invented for treatment of these equations, based on a modified thin-sheet gain scheme and a fast Fourier transform technique.

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