Journal
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 158, Issue 3, Pages 647-664Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-014-1019-6
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Conservation laws; Riemann problem; Contagion model; Traffic flow
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- ARO MURI [W911NF-11-1-0332]
- NSF [DMS-0968309, DMS-0907931]
- ARO [W911NF1010472]
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We consider an agent-based model of emotional contagion coupled with motion in one dimension that has recently been studied in the computer science community. The model involves movement with a speed proportional to a fear variable that undergoes a temporal consensus averaging based on distance to other agents. We study the effect of Riemann initial data for this problem, leading to shock dynamics that are studied both within the agent-based model as well as in a continuum limit. We examine the behavior of the model under distinguished limits as the characteristic contagion interaction distance and the interaction timescale both approach zero. The limiting behavior is related to a classical model for pressureless gas dynamics with sticky particles. In comparison, we observe a threshold for the interaction distance vs. interaction timescale that produce qualitatively different behavior for the system - in one case particle paths do not cross and there is a natural Eulerian limit involving nonlocal interactions and in the other case particle paths can cross and one may consider only a kinetic model in the continuum limit.
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