percolation

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These connections appear in theoretical descriptions of percolation, fluid turbulence, and even certain features of black holes.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

This may not seem relevant to fluid turbulence, but in earlier work, the team and other researchers in the field had evidence that the directed percolation transition had the same statistical properties as laminar-turbulent transitions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Puff jams tend to "melt" at the critical transition point from laminar to turbulent flow, giving way to the special statistical behavior of the directed percolation transition.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Somewhere in between is a critical value, called the percolation threshold, at which the fluid begins to flow all the way across the network.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

These are consolidated by the percolation of rain-water, which dissolves some of the lime from the more porous tracts and deposits it lower down, filling every fissure with stalagmite.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel