There's also a book, "Kinematics of Mixing", which was more exciting than it sounds, but it seems to have escaped my bookshelf so I don't have an author handy.
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:00 PM, Carl Tollander <c...@plektyx.com> wrote: > If you are in search of a river analogy word, you might look at "Rivers: > Form and Process in Alluvial Channels" by Keith Richards. Chock full of > terminology and field methods. > > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:47 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I need a word (or short phrase) to refer to the portion of a network >> where the edges converge or diverge (more than other parts of the network. >> Examples might be a river delta or the branching (debranching?) of blood >> vessels or lungs. "Plexus" or "knot" don't work because they could >> ambiguously refer to something like a tapestry or ... well, a knot, where >> each thread remains separate, but winds around other threads. Something >> close to "canalization" seems appropriate. But I don't want to imply the >> generation (or dissolution) of the thing. E.g. [arter|ang]iogenesis are >> not the type of words I'm looking for. >> >> There's got to be a good word for such, perhaps from graph theory or >> "network theory". Any help will be rewarded by an IOU for a pint of beer. >> 8^) >> >> -- >> ☣ uǝlƃ >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > >
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