What does percolation mean?

Question

Please could someone explain it but in simple words for me to understand thanks!

Answer 1

physics, chemistry and materials science, percolation concerns also the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials. Examples include the movement of solvents through filter paper (chromatography) and the movement of petroleum through fractured rock. Electrical analogs include the flow of electricity through random resistor networks. During the last three decades, percolation theory, an extensive mathematical model of percolation, has brought new understanding and techniques to a broad range of topics in physics, materials science as well as geography.

Percolation typically exhibits universality. Combinatorics is commonly employed to study percolation thresholds.

DEFINATION:-Percolation is a physical process that describes for a system, a transition from one state to another. In most cases, percolation is assimilated with the apparition of an infinite size cluster, corresponding to significant changes in the physical properties of the system

Answer 2

its the slow movement of water through the pours of soil and rocks