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percolation

[pur-kuh-ley-shuhn] / ˌpɜr kəˈleɪ ʃən /


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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

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

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

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

The apparatus most in use for the percolation of coffee is a tin coffee-pot composed of two parts.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)




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