Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view

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Autor(a) principal: Reis, A. Heitor
Data de Publicação: 2007
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/6467
Resumo: Constructal theory that has been successfully applied to planetary circulations and climate and to river basin morphology is shown to provide a useful framework for describing flows of people. We showed here, with simple examples, that intuitive rules of traffic organization can be anticipated based on principle, i.e., based on the Constructal Law. In addition, and similarly to the case of flows of inanimate matter, in the case of flows of people, flow patterns emerge as a necessary consequence of reduction of global flow resistances. These flow patterns point to decreasing resistivity to flows of people and commodities. Pathway length varies inversely with resistivity while pathway number increases with resistivity.
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title Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view
spellingShingle Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view
Reis, A. Heitor
People dynamics
Flow structure
Constructal theory
title_short Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view
title_full Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view
title_fullStr Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view
title_full_unstemmed Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view
title_sort Natural flow patterns and structured people dynamics: a constructal view
author Reis, A. Heitor
author_facet Reis, A. Heitor
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Reis, A. Heitor
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv People dynamics
Flow structure
Constructal theory
topic People dynamics
Flow structure
Constructal theory
description Constructal theory that has been successfully applied to planetary circulations and climate and to river basin morphology is shown to provide a useful framework for describing flows of people. We showed here, with simple examples, that intuitive rules of traffic organization can be anticipated based on principle, i.e., based on the Constructal Law. In addition, and similarly to the case of flows of inanimate matter, in the case of flows of people, flow patterns emerge as a necessary consequence of reduction of global flow resistances. These flow patterns point to decreasing resistivity to flows of people and commodities. Pathway length varies inversely with resistivity while pathway number increases with resistivity.
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