Percolation Part 2
Percolation Part 2
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 8th February 2017
- Speaker: Professor Richard Blythe (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Follow on from the talk before Christmas
Introduction to percolation: part 2
Percolation relates to the question of finding a connected path through some disordered medium (e.g., a channel through a porous rock). In the previous talk, we worked out various statistical properties (percolation probability, mean cluster size and correlation length) in simple geometries (1d and the Cayley tree). In this talk, I will recap the setup and main results, and then apply a real-space renormalisation approach to determine the properties of the more complex 2d geometry. If time permits, I shall also say a few words about directed percolation (which we have heard about in the context of turbulence).
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