Study on mechanics of crowd jam based on the cusp-catastrophe model

Safety Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1236-1241

  Zheng, Xiaoping ^a   Sun, Jiahui ^a   Zhong, Tingkuan ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Catastrophe manifold; Catastrophe projection; Crowd density; Cusp catastrophe model; Non continuity

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHE MANIFOLD; CATASTROPHE MODEL; CATASTROPHE PROJECTION; CROWD DENSITY; NON-CONTINUITY;

MECHANICS;

DISASTERS;

ACCIDENT; CROWDING; DISASTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PEDESTRIAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77956225875     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.07.003     Document Type: Review

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