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Appendix A<br />

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A. Search algorithm in Multi-Directional Pore<br />

Network (MDPN) model<br />

In order to find the isolated clusters, we need to employ tracking.We have employed<br />

an algorithm based on the frequency <strong>of</strong> bonds. In order to illustrate the<br />

procedure, considering the network <strong>of</strong> Figure (2.2), we randomly eliminated<br />

some bonds by changing the states <strong>of</strong> them from open to block in the connection<br />

matrix <strong>of</strong> Figure (2.2). Figure (A.1) shows the network configuration after<br />

this random elimination.<br />

Figure A.1: A network <strong>of</strong> size: N i = 3, N j = 3, N k = 3 after random<br />

elimination. Site numbers are shown for some nodes; system <strong>of</strong> numbering<br />

is the same as in Fig. 1. N bond = 42, N site = 26.<br />

The connection matrix is a sparse matrix. Hence, we convert it in to compact<br />

form. This results in a matrix <strong>of</strong> the size 3N bond (N bond =number <strong>of</strong> bonds).<br />

Table A.1 shows the corresponding compact matrix for upper triangle part <strong>of</strong><br />

connection matrix belonging to Figure (A.1). In the compact form shown in<br />

Table A.1, the first row (ROW in Table A.1) contains the row index <strong>of</strong> original<br />

sparse matrix, the second row (COL) contains the column index, and the third<br />

row (Entry) contains the corresponding nonzero direction numbers. Since this<br />

is compact form <strong>of</strong> connection matrix, it means that site numbers in ROW are<br />

connected in the forward direction to site numbers in COL. For example, first<br />

column <strong>of</strong> Table A.1 indicates that site number 1 is connected in the forward<br />

direction to site number 10 along lattice direction number 1.<br />

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