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KINETIC AND RELATED MODELS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 1273-1296Publisher
AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS
DOI: 10.3934/krm.2019049
Keywords
Crowd dynamics; Boltzmann-type kinetic model; nonlinear interactions; stochastic games; operator-splitting scheme
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- NSF [DMS-1620384]
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We consider a kinetic theory approach to model the evacuation of a crowd from bounded domains. The interactions of a person with other pedestrians and the environment, which includes walls, exits, and obstacles, are modeled by using tools of game theory and are transferred to the crowd dynamics. The model allows to weight between two competing behaviors: the search for less congested areas and the tendency to follow the stream unconsciously in a panic situation. For the numerical approximation of the solution to our model, we apply an operator splitting scheme which breaks the problem into two pure advection problems and a problem involving the interactions. We compare our numerical results against the data reported in a recent empirical study on evacuation from a room with two exits. For medium and mediumto-large groups of people we achieve good agreement between the computed average people density and flow rate and the respective measured quantities. Through a series of numerical tests we also show that our approach is capable of handling evacuation from a room with one or more exits with variable size, with and without obstacles, and can reproduce lane formation in bidirectional flow in a corridor.
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