percolation
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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
Directed percolation: a process where connections or flows occur in a specific direction, often used to model the spread of substances through a medium.
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
It turns out that the percolation threshold is analogous to the critical temperature.
From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023
This wadi, which is some 63 m. long, obtains water by percolation from the Nile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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