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| Authors | Ken Nakanishi |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9909005 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9909005 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.3349 |
Abstract
Newell-Whitham type car-following model with hyperbolic tangent optimal velocity function in a one-lane circuit has a finite set of the exact solutions for steady traveling wave, which expressed by elliptic theta function. Each solution of the set describes a density wave with definite number of car-bunches in the circuit. By the numerical simulation, we observe a transition process from a uniform flow to the one-bunch analytic solution, which seems to be an attractor of the system. In the process, the system shows a series of cascade transitions visiting the configurations closely similar to the higher multi-bunch solutions in the set.
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