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We present a new microscopic ODE-based model for pedestrian dynamics: the Gradient Navigation Model. The model uses a superposition of gradients of distance functions to directly change the direction of the velocity vector. The velocity is…
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We present a novel numerical method for solving ODEs while preserving polynomial first integrals. The method is based on introducing multiple quadratic auxiliary variables to reformulate the ODE as an equivalent but higher-dimensional ODE…
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