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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Nature volume 638, pages 112–119 (2025)Cite this article 93k Accesses 24 Citations 550 Altmetric Metrics details Dense crowds form some of the most dangerous environments in modern society1. Dangers arise from uncontrolled collective motions, leading to compression against walls, suffocation and fatalities2,3,4. Our current understanding of crowd dynamics primarily relies on heuristic collision models, which effectively capture the behaviour observed in small groups of people5,6. However, the emergent dynamics of dense crowds, composed of thousands of individuals, remains a formidable many-body problem lac

Download PDF Subjects Biological physics Fluid dynamics Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics Abstract Dense crowds form some of the most dangerous environments in modern society 1 . Dangers arise from uncontrolled collective motions, leading to compression against walls, suffocation and fatalities 2 , 3 , 4 . Our current understanding of crowd dynamics primarily relies on heuristic collision models, which effectively capture the behaviour observed in small groups of people 5 , 6 . However, the emergent dynamics of dense crowds, composed of thousands of individuals, remain

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