Erosion patterns in a sediment layer
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We report here on a laboratory-scale experiment which reproduces a rich variety of natural patterns with few control parameters. In particular, we focus on intriguing rhomboid structures often found on sandy shores and flats. We show that the standard views based on water surface waves come short to explain the phenomenon and we evidence a new mechanism based on a mud avalanche instability.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205632,
title = {Erosion patterns in a sediment layer},
author = {A. Daerr and P. Lee and J. Lanuza and E. Clement},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205632},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, to appear as Phys. Rev. E rapid comm