The first part of the book provides a pedagogical introduction to the physics of complex systems driven far from equilibrium. In this part we discuss the basic concepts and theoretical techniques which are commonly used to study classical stochastic transport in systems of interacting driven particles. The analytical techniques include mean-field theories, matrix product ansatz, renormalization group, etc. and the numerical methods are mostly based on computer simulations. In the second part of the book these concepts and techniques are applied not only to vehicular traffic but also to transport and traffic-like phenomena in living systems ranging from collective movements of social insects (for example, ants) on trails to intracellular molecular motor transport. These demonstrate the conceptual unity of the fundamental principles underlying the apparent diversity of the systems and the utility of the theoretical toolbox of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in interdisciplinary research far beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of physics. - Leading industry experts provide a broad overview of the interdisciplinary nature of physics - Presents unified descriptions of intracellular, ant, and vehicular traffic from a physics point of view - Applies theoretical methods in practical everyday situations - Reference and guide for physicists, engineers and graduate students

Develops different mathematical methods and tools to model living systems. This book presents material that can be used in such real-world applications as immunology, transportation engineering, and economics. It is of interest to those involved in modeling complex social systems and living matter in general.

This book continues the biannual series of conference proceedings, which has become a classical reference resource in traffic and granular research alike, and addresses the latest developments at the intersection of physics, engineering and computational science. These involve complex systems, in which multiple simple agents, be they vehicles or particles, give rise to surprising and fascinating phenomena. The contributions collected in these proceedings cover several research fields, all of which deal with transport. Topics include highway, pedestrian and internet traffic; granular matter; biological transport; transport networks; data acquisition; data analysis and technological applications. Different perspectives, i.e., modeling, simulations, experiments, and phenomenological observations are considered.

In recent years, entropy has been used as a measure of the degree of chaos in dynamical systems. Thus, it is important to study entropy in nonlinear systems. Moreover, there has been increasing interest in the last few years regarding the novel classification of nonlinear dynamical systems including two kinds of attractors: self-excited attractors and hidden attractors. The localization of self-excited attractors by applying a standard computational procedure is straightforward. In systems with hidden attractors, however, a specific computational procedure must be developed, since equilibrium points do not help in the localization of hidden attractors. Some examples of this kind of system are chaotic dynamical systems with no equilibrium points; with only stable equilibria, curves of equilibria, and surfaces of equilibria; and with non-hyperbolic equilibria. There is evidence that hidden attractors play a vital role in various fields ranging from phase-locked loops, oscillators, describing convective fluid motion, drilling systems, information theory, cryptography, and multilevel DC/DC converters. This Special Issue is a collection of the latest scientific trends on the advanced topics of dynamics, entropy, fractional order calculus, and applications in complex systems with self-excited attractors and hidden attractors.

The Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow brings together international researchers from different fields ranging from physics to computer science and engineering to discuss the latest developments in traffic-related systems. Originally conceived to facilitate new ideas by considering the similarities of traffic and granular flow, TGF'15, organised by Delft University of Technology, now covers a broad range of topics related to driven particle and transport systems. Besides the classical topics of granular flow and highway traffic, its scope includes data transport (Internet traffic), pedestrian and evacuation dynamics, intercellular transport, swarm behaviour and the collective dynamics of other biological systems. Recent advances in modelling, computer simulation and phenomenology are presented, and prospects for applications, for example to traffic control, are discussed. The conference explores the interrelations between the above-mentioned fields and offers the opportunity to stimulate interdisciplinary research, exchange ideas, and meet many experts in these areas of research.

Novel mathematical and modeling approaches to problems in graded materials, biological materials, fluid mechanics and more Covers nanomechanics, multi-scale modeling, interface mechanics and microstructure This series volume contains 128 not previously published research presentations on using nonlinear mechanics to understand and model a wide variety of materials, including polymers, metals and composites, as well as subcellular and cellular tissues. Focus is on numerical and physics approaches to representing multiscale relationships within complex solids and fluids systems, with applications in materials science, energy storage, medical diagnostics and treatment, and biotechnology. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Committees SESSION 1: INVITED LECTURES Micro-Macro Analysis of Creep and Damage Behavior of Multi-Pass Welds Some New Developments in Non-Linear Solid Mechanics Design of Material Systems: Mathematics and Physics of the Archetype-Genome Exemplar Criticism of Generally Accepted Fundamentals and Methodologies of Traffic and Transportation Theory SESSION 2: NONLINEAR CONTINUUM MECHANICS Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Simple Plane Frames of Functionally Graded Materials Thermal Post-Buckling of FG Circular Plates Under Transversely Point-Space Constraint Tunability of Longitudinal Wave Band Gap in One Dimensional Magneto-Elastic Phononic Crystal Teaching Nonlinear Mechanics at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level—Two Examples Geometrically Nonlinear FE Instability Simulations of Hinged Composite Laminated Cylindrical Shells Constitutive Relation of Martensitic Transformation in CuAlNi Based on Atomistic Simulations Soft Behaviors of Beam Shaped Liquid Crystal Elastomers Under Light Actuations XFEM Based Discontinuity Simulation for Saturated Soil Numerical Algorithm of Solving the Problem of Large Elastic-Plastic Deformation by FEM Finite Deformation for Everted Compressible Hypereleastic Cylindrical Tubes Modelling and Non-Linear Free Vibrations of Cable-Stayed Beam Wavelet Solution of a Class of Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems Axial Compression of a Rectangular Rubber Ring Composed of an Incompressible Mooney-Rivlin Material Influence of Concentration-Dependent Elastic Modulus and Charge or Discharge Rate on Tensile Stress in Anode An Integral Equation Approach to the Fully Nonlinear Fluid Flow Problem in an Infinite Channel Over Arbitrary Bottom Topography Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamical Characteristics for Thermoelastic Half-Plane with Voids Tensor Model for Dynamic Damage of Ductile Metals Over a Wide Range of Strain Rates SESSION 3: MULTI-SCALE MECHANICS AND MULTI-PHYSICS MODELING The Nonlinear Magnetoelectric Effect of Layered Magnetoelectric Composite Cylinder with an Imperfect Interface A Solution for Nonlinear Poisson-Neumann Problem of Nb3Sn Superconducting Transport Current Temperature Effect on the Tensile Mechanical Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons Square Inclusion with a Nonlinear Eigenstrain in an Anisotropic Piezoelectric Full Plane Nonlinear Analysis of the Threaded Connection with Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model Effects of Particle Volume Fraction on the Macro-Thermo-Mechanical Behaviors in Plate-Type Dispersion Nuclear Fuel Elements Mechanics of Semiflexible Polymer Chains Under Confinements Study on the Solution of Reynolds Equation for Micro Gas Bearings Using the Alternating-Direction Implication Algorithm Atomistic Study of Li Concentration Dependence of the Mechanical Properties of Graphite Anode in Li-ion Battery 3D Extrusion Simulation of the Single Screw Head and Optimization Design Buckling Behavior of Defective Carbon Nanotubes Elastic Properties of Single-Stranded DNA Biofilm with Strong Interactions Analysis on Thickness Dependence of Jc Caused by Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in YBCO Superconducting Films Operating Strain Response in CICC Coils Through Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling Dynamics Analysis of a Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Electro-Hydraulic Mix-Drive Motion Simulator by KANE Equation Multiscale 3D Fracture Simulation Integrating Tomographic Characterization Research into Compressive Mechanical Properties of Special Piezomagnetic Material Sheets A Numerical Study on Detonation Wave Propagation Using High-Precision and High-Resolution Schemes SESSION 4: STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC AND STRUCTURE-FLUID INTERACTIONS A Study on Pure IL VIV of a Marine Riser in Shear Current Parametric Studies on Nonlinear Flutter of High-Aspect-Ratio Flexible Wings Model Reduction of a Flexible Beam Rotating at High Speed Considering Dynamic Stiffening Vibration Modal Analysis of Cantilever Beams with Complicated Elasticity Boundary Constraint Numerical Simulation of Ahmed Model in Consideration of the FSI Effect Aerodynamic Damping of a Hammerhead Launch Vehicle in Transonic Flow Symmetry Reductions and Explicit Solutions of (3 + 1)-Dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) Equation Nonlinear Behaviors of an Isotropic Incompressible Hyperelastic Spherical Membrane Under Different Dynamic Loads Creep Buckling of Viscoelastic Plate Consdering Higher Order Modes SESSION 5: COMPLEX FLUID FLOW AND NONLINEAR STABILITY Homotopy Analysis of Korteweg-de Vries Equation with Time Delay Homotopy Analysis Method for Bubble Pulsation Equation with Nonlinear Term of Fractional Power Chebyshev Finite Spectral Method for Boussinesq-Type Equations on Staggered Grids Twin Jets in Crossflow Application of Fixed Point Method to Obtain a Semi-Analytical Solution of Stagnation Flow On the Nonlinear Stability of Laminar Flow Between Parallel Planes Boundary Treatments in Lattice Boltzmann Method A Lattice Boltzmann Based Immersed Boundary Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction Numerical Solutions of Convection-Diffusion Equations by Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Steady-State Solutions of the Wave-Bottom Resonant Interaction Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of the Shock Damping and the Shock Increased by Means of Lorentz Force Analysis of the Effects of Nonlinear Characteristics of Lag Dampers on Helicopter Ground Resonance Flow Structures and Sound Radiation in Supersonic Mixing Layers with Nonlinear PSE Method Turbulent Structures in Subsonic Jet Flow Forced by Random Disturbances Exponential p-Stability for a Delayed Recurrent Neural Networks with Impulses Spatial Variation of Scaling Exponents for Structure Functions in a Decaying Turbulence SESSION 6: NONLINEAR DYNAMIC OF STRUCTURE Analysis of Chaos Behavior of Single Mode Vibration of Cable-Stayed Chaotification of Fractional Maps Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of the Dynamic Axial Crushing of Empty Hexagonal Tube Active Control of a Nonlinear Aeroelastic System Using the Receptance Method Dynamics Analysis of the FHN Neuronal Model Analyzing the Effect of the Axial Force to the Natural Frequencies of Arch Stable Periodic Response of One-Way Clutches in a Two-Pulley Belt-Drive Model Supercritical Nonlinear Dynamics of an Axially Moving Viscoelastic Beam with Speed Fluctuation Nonlinear Dynamic Response to a Moving Force of Timoshenko Beams Resting on Pasternak Foundations An Improved Method for the Construction of Nonlinear Operator in Homotopy Analysis Method A Nonlinear Integration Scheme for Evolutionary Differential Equations A Comparative Study of Civil Aircraft Crashworthiness with Different Ground Conditions Improved Dynamic Analysis of Development of Pulmonary Edema The Timescale Function Method for Solving Free Vibration of Nonlinear Oscillator Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis of Flexible Wings with High-Aspect-Ratio Considering Large Deflection Differential Quadrature Method for Vibration Analysis of Finite Beams on Nonlinear Viscoelastic Foundations Numerical Simulation on the Strength and Sealing Performance for High-Pressure Isolating Flange Nonlinear Dynamical Stability of the Lattices with Initial Material and Geometric Imperfection Nonlinear Vibration of Symmetric Angle-Ply Laminated Piezoelectric Plates with Linearly Varying Thickness An Exact Free Vibration Frequency Formula for Oscillator with Single-Term Positive-Power Restoring Force An Exact Solution of Synchronization State for a Class of Networked Mass-Spring-Damper Oscillator Systems SESSION 7: INTERFACE MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING APPLICATION Numerical Simulation of Free Surface Collapse in Propellant Tank Restudy on the Adaptive Mesh Technique for Seepage Problems High-Order Series Solutions of Wave and Current Interactions Deformation and Stress Distribution of Arterial Walls of the Aged A p53-Mdm2 Dynamical Model Induced by Laminar Shear Stress in Endothelial Cells Optimized Image Processing Based on CUDA in a Combined Measurement Technique of PIV and Shadowgraph 3D Visualization of the Flow Fields Using Digital In-Line Holography Analysis and Experimental Study on Air Foam Flooding Seepage Flow Mechanics Experimental Measurements for Mechanical and Electrical Conductive Properties of CNT Bundles Analysis on Dynamic Response of Bedding Rock Slope with Bolts under Earthquakes Numerical Prediction of Aerodynamic Noise Radiated from High Speed Train Pantograph Effects of Length on Aerodynamics of High Speed Train Models Free Convection Nanofluid Flow in the Stagnation-Point Region of a Three Dimensional Body Vertical Distribution and Dynamic Release Characteristics of Pollutants from Resuspended Sediment Numerical Simulation of the Contaminant Release Through the Sediment-Overlying Water Interface Analysis on the Aerodynamic and Aero-Noise of MIRA Model Radial Squeeze Force of MR Fluid Between Two Cylinders Nonlinear Buckling Analysis and Ultimate Extended Capacity Research of Downhole Pipe Strings in Ultra-Deep Horizontal Wells A Novel Method of Generating Nonlinear Internal Wave in a Stratified Fluid Tank and Its Theoretical Model SESSION 8: MINI-SYMPOSIUM ON TRAFFIC FLUID Study on Correlation Analysis of Synchronized Flow in the Kerner-Klenov-Wolf Cellular Automation Model Numerical Simulation of Traffic Flow in the Rain or Snow Weather Condition First Order Phase Transitions in the Brake Light Cellular Automation Model Within the Fundamental Diagram Approach The Leader-Follower Winding Behavior of Pedestrians in a Queue Effect of Overpasses in Two-Dimensional Traffic Flow Model with Random Update Rule Analysis of the Density Wave in a New Continuum Model The Phenomenon of High-Speed-Car-Following on Chinese Highways A Lattice Hydrodynamic Model Considering the Difference of Density and its Analysis Experimental Feature of Car-Following Behaviors in a Platoon of 25 Vehicles Car-Following Model for Manual Transmission Vehicles The Mechanism of Synchronized Flow in Traffic Flow Modeling An Asymmetric Stochastic Car-Following Model Based on Extended Tau Theory A Gaussian Distribution Based Dual-Cognition Driver Behavior Model at Cross Traffic A New Traffic Kinetic Model Considering Potential Influence The Effect of Marks on the Pedestrian Evacuation Equilibrium Velocity Distribution Function for Traffic Flow Effects of Antilock Braking System on Driving Behavior Under Emergent Stability Analysis of Pedestrian Flow in Two-Dimensional Optimal Velocity Model with Asymmetric Interaction Simulation-Based Stability Analysis of Car-Following Models Under Heterogeneous Traffic Crossing Speed of Pedestrian at an Unsignalized Intersection Modeling Mixed Traffic Flow at a Crosswalk with Push Button Effects of Game Strategy Update on Pedestrian Evacuation in a Hall Study on Long-Term Correlation of CO and CO2 from Vehicle Emissions on Roadsides with the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Method Bottleneck Effect on a Bidirectional Two-Lane Mixed Traffic Flow

This book continues the biannual series of conference proceedings, which has become a classical reference resource in traffic and granular research alike. It addresses new developments at the interface between physics, engineering and computational science. Complex systems, where many simple agents, be they vehicles or particles, give rise to surprising and fascinating phenomena. The contributions collected in these proceedings cover several research fields, all of which deal with transport. Topics include highway, pedestrian and internet traffic, granular matter, biological transport, transport networks, data acquisition, data analysis and technological applications. Different perspectives, i.e. modeling, simulations, experiments and phenomenological observations, are considered.

This book focuses on the spatio-temporal patterns generated by two classes of mathematical models (of hyperbolic and kinetic types) that have been increasingly used in the past several years to describe various biological and ecological communities. Here we combine an overview of various modelling approaches for collective behaviours displayed by individuals/cells/bacteria that interact locally and non-locally, with analytical and numerical mathematical techniques that can be used to investigate the spatio-temporal patterns produced by said individuals/cells/bacteria. Richly illustrated, the book offers a valuable guide for researchers new to the field, and is also suitable as a textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate students in mathematics or related disciplines.

This book gathers contributions on a variety of flowing collective systems. While primarily focusing on pedestrian dynamics, it also reflects the latest developments in areas such as vehicular traffic and granular flows and addresses related emerging topics such as self-propelled particles, data transport, swarm behaviour, intercellular transport, and individual interactions to complex systems. Combining fundamental research and practical applications in the various fields discussed, the book offers a valuable asset for researchers and professionals in areas such as civil and transportation engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, computer science, and mathematics.

This book presents 57 peer-reviewed papers from the 12th Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow (TGF) held in Washington, DC, in July 2017. It offers a unique synthesis of the latest scientific findings made by researchers from different countries, institutions and disciplines. The research fields covered range from physics, computer science and engineering and they may be all grouped under the topic of "Traffic and Granular Flow". The main theme of the Conference was: "From Molecular Interactions to Internet of Things and Smart Cities: The Role of Technology in the Understanding and the Evolution of Particle Dynamics".