Multiscale Modeling of Granular Flows with Application to Crowd Dynamics

In this paper a new multiscale modeling technique is proposed. It relies on a recently introduced measure-theoretic approach, which allows one to manage the microscopic and the macroscopic scale under a unique framework. In the resulting coupled model the two scales coexist and share information. This way it is possible to perform numerical simulations in which the trajectories and the density of the particles affect each other. Crowd dynamics is the motivating application throughout the paper.

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