High-fidelity simulation of pathogen propagation, transmission and mitigation in the built environment

R Löhner, H Antil, A Srinivasan, S Idelsohn… - … Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
An overview of high-fidelity modeling of pathogen propagation, transmission and mitigation
in the built environment is given. In order to derive the required physical and numerical …

Agent‐based simulator of dynamic flood‐people interactions

M Shirvani, G Kesserwani… - Journal of flood risk …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a simulator for the modelling of the two‐way interactions between
flooding and people. The simulator links a hydrodynamic model to a pedestrian model in a …

Agent-based modelling of pedestrian responses during flood emergency: mobility behavioural rules and implications for flood risk analysis

M Shirvani, G Kesserwani… - Journal of …, 2020 - iwaponline.com
An agent-based model (ABM) for simulating the interactions between flooding and
pedestrians is augmented to more realistic model responses of evacuees during floodwater …

[HTML][HTML] Flood–pedestrian simulator for modelling human response dynamics during flood-induced evacuation: Hillsborough stadium case study

M Shirvani, G Kesserwani - Natural hazards and earth system …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
The flood–pedestrian simulator uses a parallel approach to couple a hydrodynamic model to
a pedestrian model in a single agent-based modelling (ABM) framework on graphics …

[HTML][HTML] What do we head for while exiting a room? A novel parametric distance map for pedestrian dynamic simulations

F Parisi, C Feliciani, R Lovreglio - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Identifying effective strategies describing crowd dynamics is crucial to enhance simulations
of pedestrians for crowded event planning and management. Various modelling solutions …

[HTML][HTML] Data-parallel agent-based microscopic road network simulation using graphics processing units

P Heywood, S Maddock, J Casas, D Garcia… - … Modelling Practice and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Road network microsimulation is computationally expensive, and existing state of the art
commercial tools use task parallelism and coarse-grained data-parallelism for multi-core …

A deterministic pathogen transmission model based on high-fidelity physics

R Löhner, H Antil, JM Gimenez, S Idelsohn… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
A deterministic pathogen transmission model based on high-fidelity physics has been
developed. The model combines computational fluid dynamics and computational crowd …

FLAME GPU 2: A framework for flexible and performant agent based simulation on GPUs

P Richmond, R Chisholm, P Heywood… - Software: Practice …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Agent based modelling (ABM) offers a powerful abstraction for scientific study in a broad
range of domains. The use of agent based simulators encourages good software …

Flame gpu: Complex system simulation framework

P Richmond, MK Chimeh - 2017 International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FLAME GPU is an agent based simulation frame-work that utilises the parallel architecture of
Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) to enable real time model interaction and visualisation. In …

High fidelity modeling of aerosol pathogen propagation in built environments with moving pedestrians

R Löhner, H Antil - International Journal for Numerical Methods …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A high fidelity model for the propagation of pathogens via aerosols in the presence of
moving pedestrians is proposed. The key idea is the tight coupling of computational fluid …