Numerical Simulation of the Flow of Crowds at the Jamarat Bridge during the Annual Hajj Event  

作　　者：Chokri Mnasri Abdulsalam Farhat Chokri Mnasri;Abdulsalam Farhat(Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia)

机构地区：[1]Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

出　　处：《Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics》2016年第4期321-331,共11页流体动力学（英文）

摘　　要：The huge number of pilgrims to the holy Mecca in the Hajj needs high awareness of crowd safety management. The stoning of the Jamarat, which is one of the rituals of the Hajj, undergoes the most dangerous crowd movements where fatal accidents occurred. This work investigates some problems related with the crowd dynamics when stoning the Jamarat pillars and gives some solutions. The main idea of this research is to suppose that the crowd dynamics is assimilated to fluid movement under certain conditions. Numerical simulation using a computational fluid dynamics program is used to solve Navier-Stokes equations governing the mechanics of homogeneous and incompressible fluid in a domain similar to the Jamarat Bridge from the entrance to the middle Jamarah. Some solutions are proposed inspired by the flow solutions to better manage crowd movements in the Jamarat Bridge and eventually in other similar dynamics events like sporting events.The huge number of pilgrims to the holy Mecca in the Hajj needs high awareness of crowd safety management. The stoning of the Jamarat, which is one of the rituals of the Hajj, undergoes the most dangerous crowd movements where fatal accidents occurred. This work investigates some problems related with the crowd dynamics when stoning the Jamarat pillars and gives some solutions. The main idea of this research is to suppose that the crowd dynamics is assimilated to fluid movement under certain conditions. Numerical simulation using a computational fluid dynamics program is used to solve Navier-Stokes equations governing the mechanics of homogeneous and incompressible fluid in a domain similar to the Jamarat Bridge from the entrance to the middle Jamarah. Some solutions are proposed inspired by the flow solutions to better manage crowd movements in the Jamarat Bridge and eventually in other similar dynamics events like sporting events.

关 键 词：Computational Fluid Dynamics Crowd Dynamics Crowd Management Jamarat Bridge 

分 类 号：O17[理学—数学]