"Barchan" dunes in the lab

Details "Barchan" dunes in the lab "Barchan" dunes in the lab

2001-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108378v3

C.R. Mecanique (320), 2002, pp. 185-191

Physics

Condensed Matter

3 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1631-0721(02)01447-X

We demonstrate the feasibility of studying dunes in a laboratory experiment.
It is shown that an initial sand pile, under a wind flow carrying sand,
flattens and gets a shape recalling barchan dunes. An evolution law is proposed
for the profile and the summit of the dune. The dune dynamics is shown to be
shape invariant. The invariant shape, the ``dune function'' is isolated.

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