Thursday, March 29, 2012

1203.6319 (Roberto Benzi et al.)

Population dynamics in compressible flows    [PDF]

Roberto Benzi, Mogens H. Jensen, David R. Nelson, Prasad Perlekar, Simone Pigolotti, Federico Toschi
Organisms often grow, migrate and compete in liquid environments, as well as on solid surfaces. However, relatively little is known about what happens when competing species are mixed and compressed by fluid turbulence. In these lectures we review our recent work on population dynamics and population genetics in compressible velocity fields of one and two dimensions. We discuss why compressible turbulence is relevant for population dynamics in the ocean and we consider cases both where the velocity field is turbulent and when it is static. Furthermore, we investigate populations in terms of a continuos density field and when the populations are treated via discrete particles. In the last case we focus on the competition and fixation of one species compared to another
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6319

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