Diffusive resettlement: Irreversible urban transitions in closed systems

Title: Diffusive resettlement: Irreversible urban transitions in closed systems
Creator: Slavko, Bohdan; Prokopenko, Mikhail; Glavatskiy, Kirill S.
Relation: Entropy Vol. 23, Issue 1
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23010066
Publisher: MDPI AG
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: We propose a non-equilibrium framework for modelling the evolution of cities, which describes intra-urban migration as an irreversible diffusive process. We validate this framework using the actual migration data for the Australian capital cities. With respect to the residential relocation, the population is shown to be composed of two distinct groups, exhibiting different relocation frequencies. In the context of the developed framework, these groups can be interpreted as two components of a binary fluid mixture, each with its own diffusive relaxation time. Using this approach, we obtain longterm predictions of the cities’ spatial structures, which define their equilibrium population distribution.
Subject: human migration; intra-urban relocation; urban modelling; diffusion; relaxation; irreversible thermodynamics; equilibrium
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442009
Identifier: uon:41602
Identifier: ISSN:1099-4300
Language: eng
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