Numerical simulation of pedestrian flow past a circular obstruction |
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Authors: | Yan-Qun Jiang Ru-Xun Liu Ya-Li Duan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260, USA;(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618, USA;(3) Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3875, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, a revisiting Hughes’ dynamic continuum model is used to investigate and predict the essential macroscopic characteristics of pedestrian flow, such as flow, density and average speed, in a two dimensional continuous walking facility scattered with a circular obstruction. It is assumed that pedestrians prefer to walk a path with the lowest instantaneous travel cost from origin to destination, under the consideration of the current traffic conditions and the tendency to avoid a high-density region and an obstruction. An algorithm for the pedestrian flow model is based on a cellcentered finite volume method for a scalar conservation law equation, a fast sweeping method for an Eikonal-type equation and a second-order TVD Runge-Kutta method for the time integration on unstructured meshes. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm. It is verified that density distribution of pedestrian flow is influenced by the position of the obstruction and the path-choice behavior of pedestrians. |
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Keywords: | Pedestrian flow · Continuum model ·Finite volume method · Unstructured meshes · Obstruction |
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