percolation
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Such calculations could ultimately improve scientists' understanding of complex processes like turbulence and percolation.
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
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
However, building on their earlier work, the team showed that fluids move through a pipe in a non-equilibrium phase transition, known as directed percolation, at the transition point between laminar and turbulent flow.
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
Lysimeter, lī-sim′e-tėr, n. an instrument for measuring the rate of percolation of rain through a soil.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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