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Filtration, flow in narrow channels and traffic flow are examples of processes subject to blocking when the channel conveying the particles becomes too crowded. If the blockage is temporary, which means that after a finite time the channel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 G. Page , J. Resing , P. Viot , J. Talbot

The evacuation of football stadium scenarios are discussed as model realizing ordered states, described as movements of individuals according to fields of displacements, calculated correspondingly to given scenario. The symmetry of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-08-19 W. Sikora , J. Malinowski

We consider the problem of determining an optimal strategy for electricity injection that faces an uncertain power demand stream. This demand stream is modeled via an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with an additional jump component, whereas the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Simone Göttlich , Ralf Korn , Kerstin Lux

Extinction appears ubiquitously in many fields, including chemical reactions, population biology, evolution, and epidemiology. Even though extinction as a random process is a rare event, its occurrence is observed in large finite…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-12-22 Ira B. Schwartz , Eric Forgoston , Simone Bianco , Leah B. Shaw

We have developed a model for experiments in which the bias current applied to a Josephson junction is slowly increased from zero until the junction switches from its superconducting zero-voltage state, and the bias value at which this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-06 James A. Blackburn , Matteo Cirillo , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

A generic proecological traffic control model for the urban street canyon is proposed by development of advanced continuum field hydrodynamical control model of the street canyon. The model of optimal control of street canyon dynamics is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

This document presents an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) approach to optimize pedestrian evacuation in flood-prone historic urban areas. The model aims to minimize total evacuation cost by integrating pedestrian speed, route length, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-18 Fabrizio Marinelli , Andrea Pizzuti , Guido Romano , Gabriele Bernardini , Enrico Quagliarini

We develop a risk-aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for large-scale vehicular evacuations. Traffic dynamics are captured by the Generalized Bathtub Model, which describes the network-wide trip completion rate by tracking the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Alexander Hammerl , Wenlong Jin , Ravi Seshadri , Thomas Kjær Rasmusssen , Otoo Anker Nielsen

Natural phenomena frequently involve a very large number of interacting molecules moving in confined regions of space. Cellular transport by motor proteins is an example of such collective behavior. We derive a deterministic compartmental…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Yoram Zarai , Michael Margaliot , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

In this article we use time-dependent Josephson coupling to enhance unconventional photon blockade in a system of two coupled nonlinear bosonic modes which are initially loaded with weakly populated coherent states, so the evolution is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Dionisis Stefanatos , Emmanuel Paspalakis

The problem of spontaneous emission is studied by a direct computer simulation of the dynamics of a combined system: atom + radiation field. The parameters of the discrete finite model, including up to 20k field oscillators, have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jae-Seung Lee , Mary A. Rohrdanz , A. K. Khitrin

This paper addresses the integral energy fluxes in natural and controlled turbulent channel flows, where active skin-friction drag reduction techniques allow a more efficient use of the available power. We study whether the increased…

The paper concerns the study and applications of a new class of optimal control problems governed by a perturbed sweeping process of the hysteresis type with control functions acting in both play-and-stop operator and additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Tan H. Cao , Boris S. Mordukhovich

In an emergency situation, the evacuation of a large crowd from a complex building can become slow or even dangerous without a working evacuation plan. The use of rescue guides that lead the crowd out of the building can improve the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-23 Anton von Schantz , Harri Ehtamo

Multi-lane totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes with interactions between the lanes have recently been investigated actively. This paper proposes a two-lane model with extended Langmuir kinetics on a periodic lattice. Both…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-02-09 Hiroki Yamamoto , Shingo Ichiki , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Current fluctuations in a dissipative two-state system have been studied using a novel quantum dynamics simulation method. After a transformation of the path integrals, the tunneling dynamics is computed by deterministic integration over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Stockburger , C. H. Mak

In this letter, we present a constraint-driven optimal control framework that achieves emergent cluster flocking within a constrained 2D environment. We formulate a decentralized optimal control problem that includes safety, flocking, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Logan E. Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We propose a two-phase-fluid model for a full-cone turbulent round jet that describes its dynamics in a simple but comprehensive manner with only the apex angle of the cone being a disposable parameter. The basic assumptions are that (i)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-01 Fermín Franco Medrano , Yasuhide Fukumoto , Clara M. Velte , Azur Hodžić

The computational efficiency of stochastic simulation algorithms is notoriously limited by the kinetic trapping of the simulated trajectories within low energy basins. Here we present a new method that overcomes kinetic trapping while still…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-08 Manuel Athènes , Vasily V. Bulatov

We study three classes of continuous time Markov processes (inclusion process, exclusion process, independent walkers) and a family of interacting diffusions (Brownian energy process). For each model we define a boundary driven process…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gioia Carinci , Cristian Giardina' , Claudio Giberti , Frank Redig