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Viral transmission in pedestrian crowds: Coupling an open-source code assessing the risks of airborne contagion with diverse pedestrian dynamics models
Alexandre NICOLAS, Simon MENDEZ
Collective Dynamics
2024
Non-monotonic flow variations in a stylized (TASEP-based) traffic model featuring cars searching for parking
Valentin ANFRAY, Alexandre NICOLAS
Journal of Physics: Complexity
2024
Continuous agent-based modeling of adult-child pairs based on a pseudo-energy: relevance for public safety and egress efficiency
Chuan-Zhi XIE, Tie-Qiao TANG, Alexandre NICOLAS
Safety Science
2024
Dimensionless Numbers Reveal Distinct Regimes in the Structure and Dynamics of Pedestrian Crowds
Jakob CORDES, Andreas SCHADSCHNEIDER, Alexandre NICOLAS
PNAS Nexus
2024
Flux et écoulements complexes à travers le prisme de la physique statistique : des solides désordonnés aux véhicules, en passant par les foules piétonnes
Alexandre NICOLAS
Mémoire d'HDR
2024
Classification of Pedestrian Crowds by Dimensionless Numbers
Jakob CORDES, Alexandre NICOLAS, Andreas SCHADSCHNEIDER
Collective Dynamics
2024
Time-continuous microscopic pedestrian models: an overview.
Raphael Korbmacher, Alexandre Nicolas, Antoine Tordeux & Claudia Totzeck
Crowd Dynamics, Volume 4: Analytics and Human Factors in Crowd Modeling,
2023
Modeling of obstacle avoidance by a dense crowd as a Mean-Field Game
Matteo Butano, Thibault Bonnemain, Cécile Appert-Rolland, Alexandre Nicolas & Denis Ullmo
Proceedings of the 2022 TGF Conference
2023
From microscopic droplets to macroscopic crowds: Crossing the scales in models of short-range respiratory disease transmission, with application to COVID-19
Simon Mendez, Willy Garcia, Alexandre Nicolas
Advanced Science
2023
A roadmap for the future of crowd safety research and practice: Introducing the Swiss Cheese Model of Crowd Safety and the imperative of a Vision Zero target
Milad HAGHANI et al.
Safety Science
2023
Adult–child pairs walking down stairs: Empirical analysis and optimal-step-based modeling of a complex pedestrian flow, with an exploration of flow-improvement strategies
Chuan-Zhi Xie, Tie-Qiao Tang, Bo-Tao Zhang, Alexandre Nicolas
Journal of Statistical Mechanics (JSTAT)
2023
Parking search in the physical world: Calculating the search time by leveraging physical and graph theoretical methods
Nilankur DUTTA, Thibault CHARLOTTIN, Alexandre NICOLAS
Transportation Science
2023
Covid : une nouvelle méthode de modélisation pour mieux évaluer les risques épidémiques
Simon MENDEZ, Alexandre NICOLAS
The Conversation (diffusion scientifique)
2023
Pedestrians in static crowds are not grains, but game players
Thibault Bonnemain, Matteo Butano, Théophile Bonnet, Iñaki Echeverría-Huarte, Antoine Seguin, Alexandre Nicolas, Cécile Appert-Rolland, Denis Ullmo
Physical Review E
2023
Foundations of continuous agent-based modelling frameworks for pedestrian dynamics and their implications
Iñaki ECHEVERRÍA-HUARTE, Antonin ROGE, Olivier SIMONIN and Alexandre NICOLAS
2023
Body and mind: Decoding the dynamics of pedestrians and the effect of smartphone distraction by coupling mechanical and decisional processes
Iñaki ECHEVERRÍA-HUARTE, Alexandre NICOLAS
Transportation Research Part C
2023
Revisiting the theoretical basis of agent-based models for pedestrian dynamics
Iñaki ECHEVERRÍA-HUARTE and Alexandre NICOLAS
Proceedings of the 2022 Traffic and Granular Flow Conference
2023
Special issue on the dynamics and behaviours of pedestrian groups
Tie-Qiao Tang, Alexandre Nicolas, Seungjae Lee, Winnie Daamen, Ziqi Song
Transportmetrica A
2023
La folle farandole des foules
Alexandre NICOLAS
Sciences pour tous (diffusion scientifique, UCBL)
2023
Spontaneous emergence of counterclockwise vortex motion in assemblies of pedestrians roaming within an enclosure
Iñaki Echeverría-Huarte, Alexandre Nicolas, Raúl Cruz Hidalgo, Angel Garcimartín & Iker Zuriguel
Scientific Reports
2022
Parking search in urban street networks: Taming down the complexity of the search-time problem via a coarse-graining approach
Léo BULCKAEN, Nilankur DUTTA, Alexandre NICOLAS
Proceedings of the 2022 PPAM Conference
2022
Searching for Parking in a Busy Downtown District -- An Agent-based Computational and Analytical Model
Nilankur DUTTA, Alexandre NICOLAS
International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Controls Proceedings
2021
Fluid dynamical simulations of coronavirus-laden respiratory droplets: Mind the wind and ambient air flows!
Simon MENDEZ, Alexandre NICOLAS
Working paper
2021
Model-based assessment of the risks of viral transmission in non-confined crowds
Willy Garcia, Baptiste Fray, Alexandre Nicolas
Safety Science
2021
Social groups in pedestrian crowds: Review of their influence on the dynamics and their modelling
Alexandre NICOLAS, Fadratul Hafinaz HASSAN
Transportmetrica A
2021
On the broad tails in breaking time distributions of vibrated clogging arches
Angel Garcimartín, Bruno V Guerrero, Alexandre Nicolas, Rodrigo C Barbosa da Silva, Iker Zuriguel
EPJ Web of Conferences
2021
Dense pedestrian crowds versus granular packings: An analogy of sorts
Alexandre NICOLAS
Proceedings of the 2019 Traffic & Granular Flows Conference (TGF2019)
2020
Estimation du risque de transmission virale au sein de foules dans diverses situations quotidiennes (principalement à l'extérieur)
Willy GARCIA, Baptiste FRAY, Alexandre NICOLAS
Résumé pour les décideurs (confidentiel)
2020
Experimental Study of Collective Pedestrian Dynamics
Cécile Appert-Rolland, Julien Pettré, Anne-Hélène Olivier, William Warren, Aymeric Duigou-Majumdar, Etienne Pinsard, Alexandre Nicolas
Collective dynamics
2020
Modélisation dynamique de la congestion avec une demande élastique
Nicolas MONY, Olivier NALIN, Alexandre NICOLAS
Pré-actes du Congrès ATEC ITS 2020 sur les mobilités intelligentes
2020
Mechanical response of dense pedestrian crowds to the crossing of intruders
Alexandre NICOLAS, Marcelo N. KUPERMAN, Santiago IBÁÑEZ, Sebastián BOUZAT & Cécile APPERT-ROLLAND.
Scientific Reports
2019
Fluctuations in pedestrian evacuation times: Going one step beyond the exit capacity paradigm for bottlenecks
Alexandre NICOLAS
2018
A counterintuitive way to speed up pedestrian and granular bottleneck flows prone to clogging: Can "more" escape faster?
Alexandre NICOLAS, Santiago IBÁÑEZ, Marcelo N. KUPERMAN, Sebastián BOUZAT
Journal of Statistical Mechanics
2018
Deformation and flow of amorphous solids: insights from elastoplastic models
Alexandre NICOLAS, Ezequiel FERRERO, Kirsten MARTENS & Jean-Louis BARRAT
Reviews of Modern Physics
2018
Soft modes and strain redistribution in continuous models of amorphous plasticity: the Eshelby paradigm, and beyond?
Xiangyu CAO, Alexandre NICOLAS, Denny TRIMCEV & Alberto ROSSO
Soft Matter
2018
Experimental Study of Collective Pedestrian Dynamics
Cécile APPERT-ROLLAND, Julien PETTRÉ, Anne-Hélène OLIVIER, William WARREN, Aymeric DUIGOU-MAJUMDAR, Étienne PINSARD, Alexandre NICOLAS
Proceedings of the 2018 PED Conference
2018
Réaction d’une foule dense face à un danger ponctuel
Mathieu Caron, James Cross, Jonathan Gauthier, Maxime Loil, Guillaume Mianné, Rémy Perron
Collective Scientific Project (undergraduate)
2018
A trap model for clogging and unclogging in granular hopper flows
Alexandre NICOLAS, Ángel GARCIMARTÍN & Iker ZURIGUEL
Physical Review Letters
2018
Origin of the correlations between exit times in pedestrian flows through a bottleneck
Alexandre NICOLAS & Ioannis TOULOUPAS
Journal of Statistical Mechanics
2018
Orientation of plastic rearrangements in two-dimensional model glasses under shear
Alexandre NICOLAS & Joerg ROTTLER
Physical Review E
2018
Fluctuations in pedestrian evacuation times: Going one step beyond the exit capacity paradigm for bottlenecks
Alexandre NICOLAS
Proceedings of the 2017 TGF Conference
2017
Pedestrian flows through a narrow doorway: Effect of individual behaviours on the global flow and microscopic dynamics
Alexandre NICOLAS, Sebastián BOUZAT, Marcelo KUPERMAN
Transportation Research Part B
2017
Nonlinear mechanical response of supercooled melts under applied forces
Heliana CARDENAS, Fabian FRAHSA, Sebastian FRITSCHI, Alexandre NICOLAS, Simon PAPENKORT, Thomas VOIGTMANN & Matthias FUCHS
European Physical Journal Special Topics
2017
Modélisation élasto-plastique mésoscopique de l'écoulement de solides amorphes : nos avancées récentes
Alexandre NICOLAS
Rhéologie
2016
Influence of selfish and polite behaviours on a pedestrian evacuation through a narrow exit: A quantitative characterisation
Alexandre NICOLAS, Sebastián BOUZAT, Marcelo KUPERMAN
Proceedings of the 2016 PED Conference
2016
Effects of inertia on the steady-shear rheology of disordered solids
Alexandre NICOLAS*, Jean-Louis Barrat & Joerg ROTTLER* (*: equal contributionsx)
Physical Review Letters
2016
Statistical fluctuations in pedestrian evacuation times and the effect of social contagion
Alexandre NICOLAS, Sebastián BOUZAT, Marcelo KUPERMAN
Physical Review E
2016
Shear-thinning in dense colloidal suspensions and its effect on elastic instabilities: from the microscopic equations of motion to an approximation of the macroscopic rheology
Alexandre NICOLAS & Matthias FUCHS
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
2016
3D nanostructured conjugated polymers: template-assisted synthesis and optical applications
Raphael DEHMEL*, Alexandre NICOLAS, Maik SCHERER* & Ullrich STEINER (*: equal contributions)
Advanced Functional Materials
2015
Time-dependent response to a shear-transformation: towards a realistic account of structural disorder and shear wave propagation in elastoplastic models
Alexandre NICOLAS, Francesco PUOSI, Hideyuki MIZUNO & Jean-Louis BARRAT
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2015
The Flow of Amorphous Solids: Elastoplastic Models and Mode-Coupling Approach
Alexandre NICOLAS
PhD thesis, Université de Grenoble
2014
Universal and non-universal features in coarse-grained models of flow in disordered solids
Alexandre NICOLAS, Kirsten MARTENS, Lydéric BOCQUET & Jean-Louis BARRAT
Soft Matter
2014
Spatiotemporal correlations between plastic events in the shear flow of athermal amorphous solids
Alexandre NICOLAS, Joerg ROTTLER & Jean-Louis BARRAT
The European Physical Journal E
2014
Rheology of athermal amorphous solids: Revisiting simplified scenarios and the concept of mechanical noise temperature
Alexandre NICOLAS, Kirsten MARTENS & Jean-Louis BARRAT
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
2014
A mesoscopic model for the rheology of soft amorphous solids, with application to microchannel flows
Alexandre NICOLAS & Jean-Louis BARRAT
Faraday Discussions
2013
Spatial cooperativity in microchannel flows of soft jammed materials: A mesoscopic approach
Alexandre NICOLAS & Jean-Louis BARRAT
Physical Review Letters
2013
L'ombre et la lumière dans la poésie de Paul Valéry
Alexandre NICOLAS
Mémoire de maîtrise, Université Paris 3 - La Sorbonne Nouvelle
2013
Interplay of electrohydrodynamic structure formation and microphase alignment in lamellar block copolymers
Yuan ZHOU, Alexandre NICOLAS, Katherine R. THOMAS & Ullrich STEINER
Soft Matter
2012
Nonaxisymmetric Instability of Shear-Banded Taylor-Couette Flow
Alexandre NICOLAS & Alexander MOROZOV
Physical Review Letters
2012
Controlled Assembly and Structure Formation on the Nanoscale
Alexandre NICOLAS
MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge
2011
Instabilities in the Shear-Banded Flow of Giant Worm-like Micelles
Alexandre NICOLAS
Research report, University of Edinburgh & Ecole polytechnique
2010
Analyse mathématique des réseaux sociaux
Laura CORMAN, Nathaniel CARRÉ, Juan-Pablo MORALES, Rémi MORILLEAU, Alexandre NICOLAS
Collective Scientific Project (undergraduate)
2009
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