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Open flow network is a weighted directed graph with a source and a sink, depicting flux distributions on networks in the steady state of an open flow system. Energetic food webs, economic input-output networks, and international trade…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-27 Liangzhu Guo , Xiaodan Lou , Peiteng Shi , Jun Wang , Xiaohan Huang , Jiang Zhang

Active biological flow networks pervade nature and span a wide range of scales, from arterial blood vessels and bronchial mucus transport in humans to bacterial flow through porous media or plasmodial shuttle streaming in slime molds.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-07-28 Francis G. Woodhouse , Aden Forrow , Joanna B. Fawcett , Jörn Dunkel

The study of networks plays a crucial role in investigating the structure, dynamics, and function of a wide variety of complex systems in myriad disciplines. Despite the success of traditional network analysis, standard networks provide a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-05 Manlio De Domenico , Clara Granell , Mason A. Porter , Alex Arenas

Increasing evidence suggests that cities are complex systems, with structural and dynamical features responsible for a broad spectrum of emerging phenomena. Here we use a unique data set of human flows and couple it with information on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-22 Riccardo Gallotti , Giulia Bertagnolli , Manlio De Domenico

Liquid water, besides being fundamental for life on Earth, has long fascinated scientists due to several anomalies. Different hypotheses have been put forward to explain these peculiarities. The most accredited one foresees the presence in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Michele Benzi , Isabella Daidone , Chiara Faccio , Laura Zanetti-Polzi

Unveiling the community structure of networks is a powerful methodology to comprehend interconnected systems across the social and natural sciences. To identify different types of functional modules in interaction data aggregated in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-24 Manlio De Domenico , Andrea Lancichinetti , Alex Arenas , Martin Rosvall

The method of flow tracing follows the power flow from net-generating sources through the network to the net-consuming sinks, which allows to assign the usage of the underlying transmission infrastructure to the system participants. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-09 Jonas Hörsch , Mirko Schäfer , Sarah Becker , Stefan Schramm , Martin Greiner

Network science enables the effective analysis of real interconnected systems, characterized by a complex interplay between topology and interconnections strength. It is well-known that the topology of a network affects its resilience to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-10 Giulia Bertagnolli , Riccardo Gallotti , Manlio De Domenico

This work is concerned with the intricate interplay between node or pore pressures and connection or throat conductivities in flow or pore networks. A setting similar to pore networks is given by fracture networks. Recently, a non-local…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-30 Daniel W. Meyer , Artur Gomolinski

In this paper, I present a method to solve a node discovery problem in a networked organization. Covert nodes refer to the nodes which are not observable directly. They affect social interactions, but do not appear in the surveillance logs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yoshiharu Maeno

When a fluid comprised of multiple phases or constituents flows through a network, non-linear phenomena such as multiple stable equilibrium states and spontaneous oscillations can occur. Such behavior has been observed or predicted in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Casey M. Karst , Brian D. Storey , John B. Geddes

The study of connectivity and coordination has drawn increasing attention in recent decades due to their central role in driving markets, shaping societal dynamics, and influencing biological systems. Traditionally, observable connections,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shahar Somin , Tom Cohen , Jeremy Kepner , Alex Pentland

Flow networks are essential for both living organisms and enginneered systems. These networks often present complex dynamics controlled, at least in part, by their topology. Previous works have shown that topologically complex networks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-24 Miguel Ruiz-Garcia , Eleni Katifori

We introduce and study random bipartite networks with hidden variables. Nodes in these networks are characterized by hidden variables which control the appearance of links between node pairs. We derive analytic expressions for the degree…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-19 Maksim Kitsak , Dmitri Krioukov

Transport networks are crucial to the functioning of natural and technological systems. Nature features transport networks that are adaptive over a vast range of parameters, thus providing an impressive level of robustness in supply.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-11-28 Erik Andreas Martens , Konstantin Klemm

Models of complex networks often incorporate node-intrinsic properties abstracted as hidden variables. The probability of connections in the network is then a function of these variables. Real-world networks evolve over time, and many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-19 Harrison Hartle , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Dmitri Krioukov

Physics has been transforming our view of nature for centuries. While combining physical knowledge with computational approaches has enabled detailed modeling of physical systems' evolution, understanding the emergence of patterns and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Guang-Xing Li

Complex networks encountered in biology are often characterized by significant structural diversity. Whether it be differences in the three-dimensional structure of allosteric proteins, or the variation among the micro-scale structures of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-19 Jason W. Rocks , Andrea J. Liu , Eleni Katifori

Simulations of fluid flow in naturally fractured rocks have implications for several subsurface applications, including energy storage and extraction, and waste storage. We are interested in flow in discrete fracture networks, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Alessio Fumagalli , Eirik Keilegavlen , Stefano Scialò

The dynamics of systems of interacting agents is determined by the structure of their coupling network. The knowledge of the latter is, therefore, highly desirable, for instance, to develop efficient control schemes, to accurately predict…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-10-13 Melvyn Tyloo , Robin Delabays , Philippe Jacquod