However, as the number of vehicles on the road increases ( density increases ), kinematic waves begin to form as the congested part of the Gipps Model velocity equation prevails.
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The kinematic wave is valid when the change in wave height over distance and velocity over distance and time is negligible relative to the bed slope, e . g . for shallow flows over steep slopes.
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"' HD module "': provides fully dynamic solution to the complete nonlinear 1-D Saint Venant equations, diffusive wave approximation and kinematic wave approximation, Muskingum method and Muskingum-Cunge method for simplified channel routing.
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In 1955, together with G . B . Whitham, Lighthill set out the first comprehensive theory of kinematic waves ( an application of the method of characteristics ), with a multitude of applications, prime among them fluid flow and traffic flow.
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Then for each grid cell, which has the resolution of the digital elevation model ( DEM ) used, the flow is routed according to the kinematic wave equation from cell to cell based on eight possible flow directions until the total runoff water for the sub-basin is completely routed.
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Kinematic wave can be described by a simple partial differential equation with a single unknown field variable ( e . g ., the flow or wave height, h ) in terms of the two independent variables, namely the time ( t ) and the space ( x ) with some parameters ( coefficients ) containing information about the physics and geometry of the flow.
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Correspondingly, all applications of LWR-theory to the description of traffic breakdown at highway bottlenecks ( like related applications of Daganzo s cell-transmission model, cumulative vehicle count curves ( " N "-curves ), bottleneck model, highway capacity models as well as associated applications of kinematic wave theory ) are also inconsistent with the set of fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown.
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They wrote, The fundamental hypothesis of the theory is that at any point of the road the flow q ( vehicles per hour ) is a function of the concentration k ( vehicles per mile ) . According to this model, traffic flow resembled the flow of water in that Slight changes in flow are propagated back through the stream of vehicles along kinematic waves, whose velocity relative to the road is the slope of the graph of flow against concentration . The authors included an example of such a graph; this flow-versus-concentration ( density ) plot is still used today ( see figure 3 above ).
