Flow currents and ventilation in Langstroth beehives due to brood thermoregulation efforts of honeybees

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2011.11.007MaRDI QIDQ285179zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rangarajan Sudarsan, Cody Thompson, Peter G. Kevan, Hermann J. Eberl

Publication date 19 May 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.11.007

zbMATH Keywords

mathematical modelhoneybeesbrood thermoregulationcomputational fluid dynamicsLangstroth beehive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Genetics and population dynamics (92D99)

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