{"id":192289,"date":"2024-07-03T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/physicists-explore-how-fluctuations-shape-transport-networks"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:27:48","slug":"physicists-explore-how-fluctuations-shape-transport-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/physicists-explore-how-fluctuations-shape-transport-networks","title":{"rendered":"Physicists explore how fluctuations shape transport networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-explore-how-fluctuations-shape-transport-networks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding how transport networks, such as river systems, form and evolve is crucial to optimizing their stability and resilience. It turns out that networks are not all alike. Tree-like structures are adequate for transport, while networks containing loops are more damage-resistant. What conditions favor the formation of loops?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of Arkansas sought to answer this question. The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.132.137401\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, show that networks tend to form stable <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/loop\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">loop<\/a> structures when flow fluctuations are appropriately tuned. This finding will allow us to understand the structure of dynamic transport networks better.<\/p>\n<p>Transport networks, like <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/blood+vessels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood vessels<\/a> or river systems, are essential for many natural and human-made systems. Understanding how these networks form and grow is crucial for optimizing their stability and resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding how transport networks, such as river systems, form and evolve is crucial to optimizing their stability and resilience. It turns out that networks are not all alike. Tree-like structures are adequate for transport, while networks containing loops are more damage-resistant. What conditions favor the formation of loops? Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}