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Article Dans Une Revue EPL - Europhysics Letters Année : 2018

How to push one's way through a dense crowd

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Moving through a dense crowd to help someone can be a tough task for emergency services as well as for security agents willing to ease a star to cross a crowd of fans. High densities reduce the mobility of an individual who wants to move and cross a crowd by pushing their way through. In this work, we study two situations. The first considers a person who moves through a static crowd while the second reports on a moving person (e.g., a star) who crosses a crowd of fans. Despite the simplicity of the mechanical model we use to describe a moving person who pushes apart the people of the crowd or tries to avoid them, we obtain some non-trivial results. Depending on the rigidity of a static crowd or on the aggressiveness of fans we extract quantities like the average velocity of a person moving across a crowd or the critical number of fans above which any motion of a star is impossible.

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hal-02001635 , version 1 (31-01-2019)

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Thibaut Métivet, Leonardo Pastorello, Philippe Peyla. How to push one's way through a dense crowd. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2018, 121 (5), pp.54003. ⟨10.1209/0295-5075/121/54003⟩. ⟨hal-02001635⟩
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