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Large parameter studies of fluid dynamic instabilities can crucially be simplified, if the user does not need to specify the simulation time. For this purpose, a steady state detection is implemented in the CFD library OpenFOAM. It…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-12 Martin Boesler , Norbert Weber

The aging of population is a social phenomenon in the world. In this study, series of controlled experiments were performed to investigate the movement characteristics of elderly pedestrians passing through bottlenecks. Similar…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-18 Xiangxia Ren , Jun Zhang , Shuchao Cao , Weiguo Song

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

A kind of fluid dynamic description for the collective movement of pedestrians is developed on the basis of a Boltzmann-like gaskinetic model. The differences between these pedestrian specific equations and those for ordinary fluids are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

In pedestrian dynamics, the internal drive that propels individuals toward their goals is typically captured by a single, fixed parameter, the desired walking speed. This simplification overlooks that motivation fluctuates in response to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-04 Ezel Üsten , Anna Sieben , Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried

Extensive research in pedestrian dynamics has primarily focused on crowded conditions and associated phenomena, such as lane formation, evacuation, etc. Several force-based models have been developed to predict the behavior in these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Kanika Jain , Shankar Prawesh , Indranil Saha Dalal , Anurag Tripathi

Understanding on children's movement characteristics is significant to improve their safety levels especially under emergencies. In this work, we performed laboratory experiment to investigate the dynamics of preschool children passing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-01 Hongliu Li , Jun Zhang , Libing Yang , Weiguo Song , Kwok Kit Richard Yuen

Recent advances in bottleneck studies have highlighted that different architectural adjustments at the exit may reduce the probability of clogging at the exit thereby enhancing the outflow of the individuals. However, those studies are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiaomeng Shi , Zhirui Ye , Nirajan Shiwakoti , Dounan Tang , Junkai Lin

The placement and dimensioning of exit routes is informed by experimental data and theoretical models. The experimental data is still to a large extent uncertain and contradictory. In this contribution an attempt is made to understand and…

We numerically study the impact of impulse stops on pedestrian flow for a straight corridor with multiple attractions. The impulse stop is simulated by the switching behavior model, a function of the social influence strength and the number…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-10 Jaeyoung Kwak , Hang-Hyun Jo , Tapio Luttinen , Iisakki Kosonen

Since the beginning of the century, capturing trajectories of pedestrian streams precisely from video recordings has been possible. To enable measurements at high density, the heads of the pedestrians are marked and tracked, thus providing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-24 Juliane Adrian , Ann Katrin Boomers , Sarah Paetzke , Armin Seyfried

The behavior of pedestrians shows certain regularities, which can be described by quantitative (partly stochastic) models. The models are based on the behavior of individual pedestrians, which depends on the pedestrian intentions and on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

A bottleneck can largely deteriorate the flow, such as a traffic light or an on-ramp at a road. To alleviate bottleneck situations, one of the important strategies is to control the input rate to suit the state of the road. In this study,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2019-03-28 Hiroki Yamamoto , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

We numerically study jamming transitions in pedestrian flow interacting with an attraction, mostly based on the social force model for pedestrians who can join the attraction. We formulate the joining probability as a function of social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-05 Jaeyoung Kwak , Hang-Hyun Jo , Tapio Luttinen , Iisakki Kosonen

Intersections of pedestrian flows feature multiple types, varying in the numbers of flow directions as well as intersecting angles. In this article results from diverse bidirectional flow experiments with different intersecting angles are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Jun Zhang , Armin Seyfried

We present experimental results obtained for a one-dimensional flow using high precision motion capture. The full pedestrians' trajectories are obtained. In this paper, we focus on the fundamental diagram, and on the relation between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-30 Asja Jelić , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Samuel Lemercier , Julien Pettré

The relation between flow and density is an essential quantitative characteristic to describe the efficiency of traffic systems. We have performed experiments with single-file motion of bicycles and compare the results with previous studies…

Robust statistical features have emerged from the microscopic analysis of dense pedestrian flows through a bottleneck, notably with respect to the time gaps between successive passages. We pinpoint the mechanisms at the origin of these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-14 Alexandre Nicolas , Ioannis Touloupas

The study of crowd dynamics is interesting because of the various self-organization phenomena resulting from the interactions of many pedestrians, which may improve or obstruct their flow. Besides formation of lanes of uniform walking…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-28 Anders Johansson , Dirk Helbing , Habib Z. Al-Abideen , Salim Al-Bosta

We show that keeping a constant lower limit on the net-time headway is the key mechanism behind the dynamics of pedestrian streams. There is a large variety in flow and speed as functions of density for empirical data of pedestrian streams,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Anders Johansson