percolation
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This too validated the hypothesis of a directed percolation transition.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024
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
Inputting the data into a molecular dynamics computer simulation, they were able to show that statistically, near the laminar-turbulent transition, puff behavior was in excellent agreement with 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
Leach, lēch, v.t. to wash or drain away by percolation of water, esp. to make lye by leaching ashes—also Letch.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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