percolation

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"Ramanujan's motivation might have been very mathematical, but without his knowledge, he was also studying black holes, turbulence, percolation, all sorts of things."

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

Although the Hof group had demonstrated directed percolation in a circular geometry, what happens in an open geometry like a pipe remained unclear.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

This too validated the hypothesis of a directed percolation transition.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

It turns out that the percolation threshold is analogous to the critical temperature.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

In some cases, these tracts compose basins apparently scarcely at all exposed to any local influence in the way of percolation or infiltration of water toward or from neighboring valleys.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.