
Crowd Dynamics, Volume 4
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The volume begins with an overview of analytical problems related to crowd modeling. Attention is then given to the importance of considering the social and psychological factors that influence crowd behavior - such as emotions, communication, and decision-making processes - in order to create reliable models. Finally, specific features of crowd behavior are explored, including single-file traffic, passenger movement, modeling multiple groups in crowds, and the interplay between crowd dynamics and the spread of disease.
Crowd Dynamics, Volume 4 is ideal for mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and other researchers working in the rapidly growing field of modeling and simulation of human crowds.
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Livio Gibelli is a Senior Lecturer inMechanical Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with distinction from the Politecnico di Milano. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh in 2018, he held research positions at the University of Warwick, the Politecnico di Milano, the Politecnico di Torino, and the University of British Columbia. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, edited three books, and secured over £2 million in research funding. He currently co-leads a research group of 5 PhD students and 3 post-doctoral researchers. His main research interests include mesoscopic modelling of crowd behaviour, non-equilibrium multiphase flows, continuum descriptions of rarefied gas dynamics and numerical methods for kinetic equations.
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