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percolation

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


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Such calculations could ultimately improve scientists' understanding of complex processes like turbulence and percolation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

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

This too validated the hypothesis of a directed percolation transition.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Somewhere in between is a critical value, called the percolation threshold, at which the fluid begins to flow all the way across the network.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

Turning the pot upside down the percolation takes place very slowly and no aroma is lost.

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




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