Human waves in stadiums

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 330, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 18-24

  Farkas, I ^a   Helbing, D ^b   Vicsek, T ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective motion; Excitable media; Human behaviour

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANUAL CONTROL; STATISTICS;

HUMAN WAVES; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 0345412522     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.08.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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