Crowd turbulence: the physics of crowd disasters

摘要：

The panic stampede is a serious concern during mass events like soccer championship games. Despite huge numbers of security forces and crowd control measures, hundreds of lives are lost in crowd disasters each year. An analysis of video recordings of the annual pilgrimage in Makkah reveals how high-density crowds develop to turbulent dynamics and earthquake-like eruptions, which is impossible to control.

作者: Dirk Helbing Anders Johansson HE Habib Z. Al-Abideen

作者单位: Institute for Transport & Economics, Dresden University of Technology, D-01062 Dresden, Germany;Coll Institute for Transport & Economics, Dresden University of Technology, D-01062 Dresden, Germany The Central Directorate for Holy Areas Development, Municipal and Rural Affairs,Riyadh, Kingdom of S

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 5th International Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics(第五届国际非线性力学会议)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 967-969

在线出版日期: 2007-06-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）