TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Effect of form of obstacle on speed of crowd evacuation
JO  - Physical review. E
A1  - Yano, Ryosuke
SP  - e032319
EP  - e032319
VL  - 97
IS  - 3-1
N2  - This paper investigates the effect of the form of an obstacle on the time that a crowd takes to evacuate a room, using a toy model. Pedestrians are modeled as active soft matter moving toward a point with intended velocities. An obstacle is placed in front of the exit, and it has one of four shapes: a cylindrical column, a triangular prism, a quadratic prism, or a diamond prism. Numerical results indicate that the evacuation-completion time depends on the shape of the obstacle. Obstacles with a circular cylinder (C.C.) shape yield the shortest evacuation-completion time in the proposed model.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2470-0045
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032319
ID  - ref1
ER  -