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percolation

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


NOUN
seepage
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These connections appear in theoretical descriptions of percolation, fluid turbulence, and even certain features of black holes.

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

How did your work open these new doors for mathematicians to solve problems related to percolation theory?

From Scientific American ● Sep. 25, 2023

Kelly, of Kansas City, was granted a United States patent on an urn coffee machine employing a coffee extractor in which the ground coffee was continually agitated before percolation by a vacuum process.

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




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