Abstract
This brief overview is designed to introduce some of the advances that have occurred in our understanding of percolation phenomena. We organize our presentation around three simple questions: (i) What are percolation phenomena? (ii) Why do we care? (iii) What do we actually do? To answer the third question, we will briefly review some recent applications of percolation that have been the subject of research in the Boston University group.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5-16 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
| Volume | 266 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
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| State | Published - 15 Apr 1999 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Percolation and Disordered Systems: Theory and Applications - Giessen, Ger Duration: 14 Jul 1998 → 17 Jul 1998 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank our co-authors whose work is reported here. One of us (HES) thanks especially A. Coniglio for teaching him many of the finer points of percolation theory. Finally, we thank BP, CNPq, and NSF for supporting our group's research on percolation.
Funding
We thank our co-authors whose work is reported here. One of us (HES) thanks especially A. Coniglio for teaching him many of the finer points of percolation theory. Finally, we thank BP, CNPq, and NSF for supporting our group's research on percolation.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| National Science Foundation | |
| Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico |