Abstract
Mandelbrot1 has argued that a wide range of natural objects and phenomena are fractals; examples of fractal trees include actual trees, plants such as a cauliflower, river systems and the cardiovascular system. Here we apply the renormalization group approach2 to the collapse of fractal trees, which may be applicable to a variety of problems including cardiac arrest, failure of bronchial systems, failure of electrical distribution systems and the instability resulting in earthquakes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 671-672 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Nature |
Volume | 313 |
Issue number | 6004 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 1985 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General