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Let no one fall - A reconstruction of the Halloween catastrophe in Seoul

A Halloween party in the streets of the Itaewon party district in Seoul turns into a real-life horror in 2022. 159 young people die in the crowds. Thousands are left injured, desperate and angry.

Soccer and pedestrian dynamics - safely into the stadium

An interdisciplinary research project is developing complex computer simulations for the routes to events.

Bustling through the physics of crowds

COMIC: Using tools from fields like fluid dynamics to better understand how groups of people move around can improve flow and make large gatherings safer

NZZ Format - Mass panic - How streams of people can be controlled

Every year there are hundreds of fatalities at sporting events, religious occasions and festivals. Is “mass panic” responsible for this or do people die for other reasons?

Different scales needed to model fires with Lukas Arnold

If someone ever tells you they have modelled fire spread for a commercial project, with 20 cm grids and using generic materials from (old) FDS database, please do me a favour and redirect them to this episode.

Visibility Prediction Framework with Lukas Arnold

If you ever had anything to do with Fire Safety Engineering, you have most likely touched the visibility in smoke. What's an easier way to explain how bad the conditions are inside of a building than saying how much smoke was there?

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