A Dragon Analysis Model

Abstract

The three dragons in Game of Thrones have great power. Supposing the three fictional dragons were still alive, we build the DA model to analyze dragons. Firstly, we refer to Richards model—one of the most common model of creature size, to describe dragon’s body features in accordance with volume. Then in order to conduct fitting, we use the data of tyrannosaurus rex and the formula from another paper, which describes the relationship between femoral girth and body weight, finally we get the volume function. Secondly, when building the energy model, based on the energy budget equation, we decide to apply large bird’s energy model to our study and add the special activity energy to explain dragon’s ability to breath fire. Then we refer to the basal metabolic rate and active metabolic rate of super-large birds to calculate the energy of dragons. Finally, we get the calorie intake of dragons at different ages. Thirdly, for the characteristics, we assume that dragons can fly (even long distances), breath fire, and resist trauma. The mechanisms of flight and fire breathing are relative to energy metabolism. And we assume that dragon’s ability to resist trauma is related to the rate of cell proliferation. Then we build the cell growth model for this area’s research.