Citation

Hidalgo RC, Parisi DR, Zuriguel I. Phys. Rev. E 2017; 95(4-1): 042319.

Affiliation

Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Navarra, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Physical Society)

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.95.042319

PMID

28505803

Abstract

We present a numerical framework to simulate pedestrian dynamics in highly competitive conditions by means of a force-based model implemented with spherocylindrical particles instead of the traditional, symmetric disks. This modification of the individuals' shape allows one to naturally reproduce recent experimental findings of room evacuations through narrow doors in situations where the contact pressure among the pedestrians was rather large. In particular, we obtain a power-law tail distribution of the time lapses between the passage of consecutive individuals. In addition, we show that this improvement leads to new features where the particles' rotation acquires great significance.

Language: en