Analysis of crowd jam in public buildings based on cusp-catastrophe theory

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1755-1761

  Xiaoping, Zheng ^a   Jiahui, Sun ^a   Yuan, Cheng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bifurcation set; Critical density; Crowd evacuation; Cusp catastrophe theory; Forecasting; Non continuity

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION SET; CATASTROPHE THEORY; CRITICAL DENSITY; CROWD EVACUATION; CUSP-CATASTROPHE THEORY;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PUBLIC WORKS;

DISASTERS;

BUILDING; CATASTROPHE THEORY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 77950858966     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.01.027     Document Type: Article

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