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Kinetic theory frameworks are widely used for modeling stochastic interacting systems, where the evolution primarily depends on binary interactions. Recently, in this framework the action of the external force field has been introduction in…

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People tend to walk in groups, and interactions with those groups have a significant impact on crowd behavior and pedestrian traffic dynamics. Social norms can be seen as unwritten rules regulating people interactions in social settings.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-31 Saleh Albeaik , Faisal Alsallum , Mohamad Alrished

We study the spatial patterns formed by a system of interacting particles where the mobility of any individual is determined by the population crowding at two different spatial scales. In this way we model the behavior of some biological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Ricardo Martínez-García , Clara Murgui , Emilio Hernández-García , Cristóbal López

The possibility to understand and to quantitatively model the physics of the interactions between pedestrians walking in crowds has compelling relevant applications, e.g. related to the design and safety of civil infrastructures. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Alessandro Corbetta , Jasper Meeusen , Chung-min Lee , Roberto Benzi , Federico Toschi

Aggregation processes with an arbitrary number of conserved quantities are investigated. On the mean-field level, an exact solution for the size distribution is obtained. The asymptotic form of this solution exhibits nontrivial ``double''…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. L. Krapivsky , E. Ben-Naim

From tumour invasion to cell sorting and animal territoriality, many biological systems rely on nonlocal interactions that drive complex spatial organisation. Partial differential equations (PDEs) with nonlocal advection are increasingly…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 Valeria Giunta , Thomas Hillen , Mark A. Lewis , Jonathan R. Potts

In this paper we propose a classification of crowd models in built environments based on the assumed pedestrian ability to foresee the movements of other walkers. At the same time, we introduce a new family of macroscopic models, which make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Emiliano Cristiani , Fabio S. Priuli , Andrea Tosin

Flocking refers to collective behavior of a large number of interacting entities, where the interactions between discrete individuals produce collective motion on the large scale. We employ an agent-based model to describe the microscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Zhiping Mao , Zhen Li , George Em Karniadakis

In this paper we investigate numerically the model for pedestrian traffic proposed in [B.Andreianov, C.Donadello, M.D.Rosini, Crowd dynamics and conservation laws with nonlocal constraints and capacity drop, Mathematical Models and Methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Boris Andreianov , Carlotta Donadello , Ulrich Razafison , Massimiliano Daniele Rosini

Modeling of crowds of pedestrians has been considered in this paper from different aspects. Based on fractional microscopic model that may be much more close to reality, a fractional macroscopic model has been proposed using conservation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-02-04 Ke-cai Cao , YangQuan Chen , Dan Stuart

We study the evolution of interacting groups of agents in two-dimensional geometries. We introduce a microscopic stochastic model that includes floor fields modeling the global flow of individual groups as well as local interaction rules.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-03 William Ott , Ilya Timofeyev , Thomas Weber

Predicting the behaviors of pedestrian crowds is of critical importance for a variety of real-world problems. Data driven modeling, which aims to learn the mathematical models from observed data, is a promising tool to construct models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Chen Cheng , Jinglai Li

Many real systems are strongly characterized by collective cooperative phenomena whose existence and properties still need a satisfactory explanation. Coherently with their collective nature, they call for new and more accurate descriptions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-30 Giulio Burgio , Joan T. Matamalas , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used, with huge success, to model phenomena arising across all scientific and engineering disciplines. However, across an equally wide swath, there exist situations in which PDE models fail to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Marta D'Elia , Qiang Du , Christian Glusa , Max Gunzburger , Xiaochuan Tian , Zhi Zhou

The employment of nonlocal PDE models to describe biological aggregation and other phenomena has gained considerable traction in recent years. For cell populations, these methods grant a means of accommodating essential elements such as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-10 Kevin J Painter , Thomas Hillen , Jonathan R Potts

In this paper we propose local and global existence results for the solution of systems characterized by the coupling of ODEs and PDEs. The coexistence of distinct mathematical formalisms represents the main feature of hybrid approaches, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Marta Menci , Marco Papi

Conservation laws are formulated for systems of differential equations by using symmetries and adjoint symmetries, and an application to systems of evolution equations is made, together with illustrative examples. The formulation does not…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-07-13 Wen-Xiu Ma

The motion of pedestrian crowds (e.g. for simulation of an evacuation situation) can be modeled as a multi-body system of self driven particles with repulsive interaction. We use a few simple situations to determine the simplest allowed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-04 B. Steffen

Neural ordinary differential equations (Neural ODEs) is a class of machine learning models that approximate the time derivative of hidden states using a neural network. They are powerful tools for modeling continuous-time dynamical systems,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-16 Wenbo Hao

Simultaneous deterministic and weakly stochastic dynamics of multiple populations described by a large system of ODE's is considered in the phase space of population sizes and ODE's parameters. We show that many practically interesting…

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