Morphological and dynamical aspects of the room evacuation process

We study the evacuation of a set of 200 pedestrians from a room under a state of panic. The dynamics of the pedestrians is given by the Social Force Model. The degree of panic is controlled by a parameter vd which represents the velocity at which pedestrians wish to move. We show that the "fast...

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Autores: Parisi, Daniel Ricardo, Dorso, Claudio Oscar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/62564
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/62564
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Discrete Pedestrian Simulation
Panic Evacuation
Social Force Model
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Sumario:We study the evacuation of a set of 200 pedestrians from a room under a state of panic. The dynamics of the pedestrians is given by the Social Force Model. The degree of panic is controlled by a parameter vd which represents the velocity at which pedestrians wish to move. We show that the "faster is slower effect" can be understood in terms of the works performed by the different forces present in the system and the role played by dissipative terms in the model. Beyond the maximum flow rate the "granular cluster" mass distribution displays a transition from exponentially decaying to "U-shaped" as this value of vd evacuation efficiency begins to decrease rapidly. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.