Thermodynamics of urban population flows.
Orderliness, reflected via mathematical laws, is encountered in different frameworks involving social groups. Here we show that a thermodynamics can be constructed that macroscopically describes urban population flows. Microscopic dynamic equations and simulations with random walkers underlie the macroscopic approach. Our results might be regarded, via suitable analogies, as a step towards building an explicit social thermodynamics.
Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité, Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Atomique et Moléculaires Complexes, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne 31062, Toulouse CEDEX 09, France.
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D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009038:Motion; D016011:Normal Distribution; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012919:Social Behavior; D012942:Social Sciences / Q000379:methods; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014505:Urban Population