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Prediction of traffic (like weather forecast), its planning and control are counted among the great scientific and technological challenges. Similarly, flow of granular material like tablets or powders is of immense importance for industrial processing of solids. Both fields have intriguing conceptual analogies.
From 9–11 October, 1995, the German Supercomputing Center HLRZ (Höchstleitungsrechenzentrum) at the research center Jülich (KFA) organized an international workshop "Traffic and Granular Flow". The purpose of this workshop was to promote the interaction between these two scientific fields, to which supercomputing is making essential contributions, and to stimulate the transfer between basic and applied research.
Contents:
- Prologue (I Prigogine & R Herman)
- Traffic:
- Some Remarks on the History of the Science of Traffic Flow (W Leutzbach)
- A Review and Some Speculation about Speed–Flow Relationships on Freeways (F L Hall)
- Application of Traffic Flow Models (W Brilon & M Ponzlet)
- Dynamical Model for Congestion of Freeway Traffic and Its Structural Stability (Y Sugiyama)
- Granular Flow:
- Density Waves in Dry Granular Flow (H J Herrmann et al.)
- Microstructures and Kinetics in Rapid Granular Flows (I Goldhirsch)
- Wave Instability in Liquid–Fluidized Beds (M Nicolas et al.)
- Granular Flow Modelled by Brownian Particles (T Riethmüller et al.)
- Transients in Homogenous Granular Pipe Flow (J Schäfer & D E Wolf)
- and other papers
Readership: Researchers and scientists in statistical physics, computational physics, civil engineering, numerical & computational methods, fluid mechanics, supercomputing/parallel processing, general and traffic.
