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We study airplane boarding in the limit of large number of passengers using geometric optics in a Lorentzian metric. The airplane boarding problem is naturally embedded in a 1+1 dimensional space-time with a flat Lorentzian metric. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-22 Sveinung Erland , Jevgenijs Kaupužs , Vidar Frette , Rami Pugatch , Eitan Bachmat

Airlines use different boarding policies to organize the queue of passengers waiting to enter the airplane. We analyze three policies in the many-passenger limit by a geometric representation of the queue position and row designation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-07 Sveinung Erland , Jevgenijs Kaupužs , Albert Steiner , Eitan Bachmat

Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo optimization algorithm and a computer simulation, I find the passenger ordering which minimizes the time required to board the passengers onto an airplane. The model that I employ assumes that the time that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-17 Jason H. Steffen

I present and discuss a model for the free-for-all passenger boarding which is employed by some discount air carriers. The model is based on the principles of statistical mechanics where each seat in the aircraft has an associated energy…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-01-06 Jason H. Steffen

In this paper, we study a two-dimensional Lorentzian problem on the anti-de Sitter plane. Using methods of geometric control theory and differential geometry, it was possible to construct an orthonormal frame, calculate extremal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-11 A. Z. Ali , Yu. L. Sachkov

Airplane boarding process is an example where disorder properties of the system are relevant to the emergence of universality classes. Based on a simple model, we present a systematic analysis of finite-size effects in boarding time, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-21 Yongjoo Baek , Meesoon Ha , Hawoong Jeong

This paper develops a real-time, search-based aircraft contingency landing planner that minimizes traffic disruptions while accounting for ground risk. The airspace model captures dense air traffic departure and arrival flows, helicopter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 H. Emre Tekaslan , Ella M. Atkins

We construct a matrix model equivalent (exactly, not asymptotically), to the random plane partition model, with almost arbitrary boundary conditions. Equivalently, it is also a random matrix model for a TASEP-like process with arbitrary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bertrand Eynard

The research project has been made for mathematical modeling of aerospace system Space-to-Surface for avoid intercepting process by flight objects Surface-to-Air. The research has been completed and created mathematical models which used…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Serge Gorneff

The timely handling of passengers is critical to efficient airport and airline operations. The pandemic requirements mandate adapted process designs and handling procedures to maintain and improve operational performance. Passenger…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-20 Michael Schultz , Majid Soolaki , Mostafa Salari , Elnaz Bakhshian

Models for predicting aircraft motion are an important component of modern aeronautical systems. These models help aircraft plan collision avoidance maneuvers and help conduct offline performance and safety analyses. In this article, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Shane Barratt , Mykel Kochenderfer , Stephen Boyd

This research investigates flight delay trends by examining factors such as departure time, airline, and airport. It employs regression machine learning methods to predict the contributions of various sources to delays. Time-series models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Aravinda Jatavallabha , Jacob Gerlach , Aadithya Naresh

We design an optimal group boarding method using a stochastic cellular automata model for passenger movements, which is extended by a virus transmission approach. Furthermore, a new mathematical model is developed to determine an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-01 Michael Schultz , Majid Soolaki

We survey some results about the asymptotic behavior of discrete spacetime models, which appeared in diverse settings in the physics and math literature. We then discuss some recent applications, including scheduling in disk drives and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eitan Bachmat

Reducing the aircraft boarding time is a common problem not only for airlines, but also for passengers and airports. Group boarding is a popular boarding strategy that separates the passengers into several groups and those groups, which are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-29 Sakurako Tanida , Katsuhiro Nishinari

The type IIB matrix model has been investigated as a possible nonperturbative formulation of superstring theory. In particular, it was found by Monte Carlo simulation of the Lorentzian version that the 9-dimensional rotational symmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Takehiro Azuma , Yuta Ito , Jun Nishimura , Asato Tsuchiya

We present a perturbation theory by extending a prescription due to Feynman for computing the probability density function for the random flight motion. The method can be applied to a wide variety of otherwise difficult circumstances. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tim Hatamian

This paper presents a more complete version than hitherto published of our explanation of a transition from regular to irregular motions and more generally of the nature of a certain kind of deterministic chaos. To this end we introduced a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-06-20 F. Calogero , D. Gomez-Ullate , P. Santini , M. Sommacal

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard

This work proposes a method for the two-dimensional simulation of Brownian particles in a fluid with restrictions. The method is based on simple numerical rules between two matrices. One of the matrix represent the identification of all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-24 Eric Plaza
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