Damage and fluctuations induce loops in optimal transport networks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Katifori, Eleni ^a   Szöllosi, Gergely J ^b   Magnasco, Marcelo O ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS; CLOSED LOOPS; HIGH DENSITY; LEAF VENATION; LOOPLESS; OPTIMAL TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT NETWORKS; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 75849126448     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.048704     Document Type: Article

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