| Issue |
EPL
Volume 86, Number 2, April 2009
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| Article Number | 24002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/86/24002 | |
| Published online | 08 May 2009 | |
Damage isolation via strategic self-destruction: A case study in 2D random networks
1
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York - Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
2
Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Neurology, State University of New York - Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
3
Department of Physics, State University of New York - Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Corresponding author: sen@nsm.buffalo.edu
Received:
21
October
2008
Accepted:
17
March
2009
We study the nucleation, spreading, and control of irreversible diffusive damage in a 2D fixed-radius random network. The control is achieved via strategic self-destruction. Our studies suggest that rapidly activated aggressive and encompassing self-destruction may provide optimum long-term survival of the network. When the damaged area is sufficiently small, strategic self-destruction may be too dependent on local geometry and the details of the dynamics and hence non-trivial to estimate. Our results reveal broad insights into how it may be possible to combat and control the spreading of problematic effects across fixed-radius random networks.
PACS: 46.65.+g – Random phenomena and media / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 64.60.aq – Networks
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