Fatemeh Ebrahimi J. Stat. Mech. (2008) P04005 doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2008/04/P04005
Fatemeh Ebrahimi
Show affiliationsThe shape of two-dimensional invasion percolation clusters are studied numerically for both non-trapping (NTIP) and trapping (TIP) invasion percolation processes. Two different anisotropy quantifiers, the anisotropy parameter and the asphericity, are used for probing the degree of anisotropy of clusters. We observe that, in spite of the difference in scaling properties of NTIP and TIP, there is no difference in the values of anisotropy quantifiers of these processes. Furthermore, we find that, in completely random media, the invasion percolation clusters are on average slightly less isotropic than standard percolation clusters. Introducing isotropic long-range correlations into the media reduces the isotropy of the invasion percolation clusters. The effect is more pronounced for the case of persisting long-range correlations. The implication of boundary conditions on the shape of clusters is another subject of interest. Compared to the case of free boundary conditions, IP clusters of conventional rectangular geometry turn out to be more isotropic. Moreover, we see that in conventional rectangular geometry the NTIP clusters are more isotropic than the TIP clusters.
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Issue 04 (April 2008)
Received 12 December 2007, accepted for publication 17 March 2008
Published 8 April 2008
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