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The equation of motion of a general class of macroscopic traffic flow models is linearized around a steady uniform flow. A closed-form solution of a boundary-initial value problem is obtained, and it is used to describe several phenomena.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-10 Tal Cohen , Rohan Abeyaratne

In this paper, we demonstrate that potential theory provides a powerful framework for analyzing quasistationary fluid flows in bounded geometries, where the bulk dynamics are governed by elliptic equations with constant coefficients. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Christoph Walker

The simulation of pedestrian crowd that reflects reality is a major challenge for researches. Several crowd simulation models have been proposed such as cellular automata model, agent-based model, fluid dynamic model, etc. It is important…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Wonho Kang , Youngnam Han

Dense granular flows through constrictions, as well as competitive pedestrian evacuations, are hindered by a propensity to form clogs. We usesimulations of model pedestrians and experiments with granular disks to explore an original…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-29 Alexandre Nicolas , Santiago Ibáñez , Marcelo Kuperman , Sebastián Bouzat

The author treats the system of motion for an incompressible non-Newtonian fluids of the stress tensor described by $p-$potential function subject to slip boundary conditions in $\mathbb{R}^3_+$. Making use of the Oseen-type approximation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Aibin Zang

We present a model of crowd motion in regions with moving obstacles, which is based on the notion of measure sweeping process. The obstacle is modeled by a set-valued map, whose values are complements to r-prox-regular sets. The crowd…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Nadezhda Maltugueva , Nikolay Pogodaev

We consider a kinetic model, which describes the sedimentation of rod-like particles in dilute suspensions under the influence of gravity. This model has recently been derived by Helzel and Tzavaras in \cite{HT2015}. Here we restrict our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-09 Christiane Helzel , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

Mathematical models for flow and reactive transport in porous media often involve non-linear, degenerate parabolic equations. Their solutions have low regularity, and therefore lower order schemes are used for the numerical approximation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Jakub W. Both , Kundan Kumar , Jan M. Nordbotten , Iuliu Sorin Pop , Florin A. Radu

In this paper we study two models for crowd motion and herding. Each of the models is of Keller-Segel type and involves two parabolic equations, one for the evolution of the density and one for the evolution of a mean field potential. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Jean Dolbeault , Peter Markowich , Gaspard Jankowiak

Recent advances in modeling and control of crowds of pedestrians are briefly surveyed in this paper. Possibilities of applying fractional calculus in the modeling of crowd of pedestrians have been shortly reviewed and discussed from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Ke-cai Cao , YangQuan Chen , Dan Stuart , Dong Yue

In this paper we systematically apply the mathematical structures by time-evolving measures developed in a previous work to the macroscopic modeling of pedestrian flows. We propose a discrete-time Eulerian model, in which the space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-02 Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

Roger Hughes proposed a macroscopic model for pedestrian dynamics, in which individuals seek to minimize their travel time but try to avoid regions of high density. One of the basic assumptions is that the overall density of the crowd is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-29 José A. Carrillo , Stephan Martin , Marie-Therese Wolfram

In this work we propose a model to describe the statistical fluctuations of the self-driven objects (species A) walking against an opposite crowd (species B) in order to simulate the regime characterized by stop-and-go waves in the context…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 Roberto da Silva , Agenor Hentz , Alexandre Alves

We investigate the effect of groups on a bi-directional flow, by using novel computational methods. Our focus is on self-organisation phenomena, and more specifically on the time needed for the occurrence of pedestrian lanes, their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-11 Francesco Zanlungo , Luca Crociani , Zeynep Yücel , Takayuki Kanda

The two most commonly used methods to model the behaviour of granular flows are discrete element and continuum mechanics simulations. These approaches concentrate on the deterministic description of particle or bulk material motion. Unlike…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-15 Benjy Marks , Shivakumar Athani , Itai Einav

Despite the vast amount of studies on pedestrian flow, the data concerning high densities are still very inadequate. We organize one large-scale pedestrian flow experiment on a ring corridor. With 278 participants, the density as high as 9…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-31 Cheng-Jie Jin , Rui Jiang , S. C. Wong , Dawei Li , Ning Guo , Wei Wang

With the increasing size and frequency of mass events, the study of crowd disasters and the simulation of pedestrian flows have become important research areas. Yet, even successful modeling approaches such as those inspired by Newtonian…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Mehdi Moussaid , Dirk Helbing , Guy Theraulaz

A numerical model and parallel software for 3D simulations of granular flows have been developed based on the Lagrangian particle (LP) method [R.Samulyak, X. Wang, H.-C. Chen, Lagrangian particle method for compressible fluid dynamics, J.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Mario Zepeda , Roman Samulyak

Experimental results for congested pedestrian traffic are presented. For data analysis we apply a method providing measurements on an individual scale. The resulting velocity-density relation shows a coexistence of moving and stopping…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-06-18 A. Seyfried , A. Portz , A. Schadschneider

Modeling the relationship between vehicle speed and density on the road is a fundamental problem in traffic flow theory. Recent research found that using the least-squares (LS) method to calibrate single-regime speed-density models is…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-18 Zhanhong Cheng , Xudong Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Martin Trepanier , Lijun Sun