Growth of barchan dunes of bidispersed granular mixtures
Abstract
Barchans are dunes of crescentic shape found on Earth, Mars and other celestial bodies, growing usually on polydisperse granular beds. In this Letter, we investigate experimentally the growth of subaqueous barchans consisting of bidisperse grains. We found that the grain distribution within the dune changes with the employed pair, and that a transient stripe appears on the dune surface. We propose that observed patterns result from the competition between fluid entrainment and easiness of rolling for each grain type, and that grains segregate with a diffusion-like mechanism. Our results provide new insights into barchan structures found in other environments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2104.02178,
title = {Growth of barchan dunes of bidispersed granular mixtures},
author = {Carlos Azael Alvarez Zambrano and Fernando David Cúñez Benalcázar and Erick de Moraes Franklin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.02178},
year = {2021}
}
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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Physics of Fluids 33, 051705 (2021) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0048696