A physics-based model of swarming jellyfish

Erik Gengel; Zafrir Kuplik; Dror Angel; Eyal Heifetz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0288378

A physics-based model of swarming jellyfish

PLoS One. 2023 Jul 10;18(7):e0288378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288378. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Erik Gengel¹, Zafrir Kuplik^{2

3}, Dror Angel³, Eyal Heifetz¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geophysics, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
² The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
³ The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.

Abstract

We propose a model for the structure formation of jellyfish swimming based on active Brownian particles. We address the phenomena of counter-current swimming, avoidance of turbulent flow regions and foraging. We motivate corresponding mechanisms from observations of jellyfish swarming reported in the literature and incorporate them into the generic modelling framework. The model characteristics is tested in three paradigmatic flow environments.

Copyright: © 2023 Gengel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biomechanical Phenomena
Cnidaria*
Physics
Scyphozoa*
Swimming

Grants and funding

EG: 1. Joint Postdoctoral Fellowships by the Tel Aviv University and the University of Potsdam - no grant number available - Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany - Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel - https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/ - https://english.tau.ac.il/ - The funders had no influence in the project. 2. Minerva Fellowship of the Minerva Stiftung Gesellschaft fuer die Forschung mbH - no grant number available - Minerva Stiftung Gesellschaft für die Forschung mbH, Hofgartenstraße 8, D-80539 München - www.minerva.mpg.de - The funders had no influence on the project. 3. Financial support by the Israel Data Science Initiative - Proposal ID: ‫‪ac8dff64110d4e61f3e24cbf0f1bc2e6‬‬ - Technion International, Mauerberger Building, 2nd floor, Technion City, Haifa, 3200003, Israel - https://idsi.net.technion.ac.il/ - The funders had no influence on the project.