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Simple Monte Carlo model for crowd dynamics

Piazza, Francesco
2010
Physical Review E

In this paper, we introduce a simple Monte Carlo method for simulating the dynamics of a crowd. Within our model a collection of hard-disk agents is subjected to a series of two-stage steps, implying (i) the displacement of one specific agent followed by (ii) a rearrangement of the rest of the group through a Monte Carlo dynamics. The rules for the combined steps are determined by the specific setting of the granular flow, so that our scheme should be easily adapted to describe crowd dynamics issues of many sorts, from stampedes in panic scenarios to organized flow around obstacles or through bottlenecks. We validate our scheme by computing the serving times statistics of a group of agents crowding to be served around a desk. In the case of a size homogeneous crowd, we recover intuitive results prompted by physical sense. However, as a further illustration of our theoretical framework, we show that heterogeneous systems display a less obvious behavior, as smaller agents feature shorter serving times. Finally, we analyze our results in the light of known properties of nonequilibrium hard-disk fluids and discuss general implications of our model.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.82.026111
Web of Science ID

WOS:000281071500002

Author(s)
Piazza, Francesco
Date Issued

2010

Published in
Physical Review E
Volume

82

Article Number

026111

Subjects

Disk Packings

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Systems

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Physics

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REVIEWED

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August 19, 2010
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