Traffic and Granular Flow '01

Minoru Fukui

ISBN 10: 3540402551 / ISBN 13: 9783540402558

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Sep 2003, 2003

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -During the last decade physicists, engineers and computer scientists have joined in an enormously fruitful dialogue about traffic and granular flow. Cars and sand grains have in common, that they interact irreversibly, which is the reason for similar jamming phenomena. The main difference is that car drivers choose their destination and route individually, while grains follow external driving forces. This book gives an overview about the progress in modelling, computer simulation, experiments and field observations, which was reached within the last two years. The contributions are based on the International Workshop Traffic and Granular Flow '01, which took place in Nagoya, 15 - 17 October 2001. Topics include a critical classification of models for highway traffic, new technological applications, friction and arching phenomena in pedestrian traffic, scale free networks and internet traffic, instabilities and fluctuations in avalanches and granular pipe flow.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 604 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traffic and Granular Flow '01
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Sep 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540402551
• ISBN 13: 9783540402558
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 173H x 37D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 173 millimeters height by 37 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1175 grams

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During the last decade physicists, engineers and computer scientists have joined in an enormously fruitful dialogue about traffic and granular flow. Cars and sand grains have in common, that they interact irreversibly, which is the reason for similar jamming phenomena. The main difference is that car drivers choose their destination and route individually, while grains follow external driving forces. This book gives an overview about the progress in modelling, computer simulation, experiments and field observations, which was reached within the last two years. The contributions are based on the International Workshop Traffic and Granular Flow '01, which took place in Nagoya, 15 - 17 October 2001. Topics include a critical classification of models for highway traffic, new technological applications, friction and arching phenomena in pedestrian traffic, scale free networks and internet traffic, instabilities and fluctuations in avalanches and granular pipe flow.