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Modelling a Dune Field

Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We present a model to describe the collective motion of barchan dunes in a field. Our model is able to reproduce the observation that a typical dune stays confined within a stripe. We also obtain some of the pattern structures which ressemble those observed from aerial photos which we do analyse and compare with the specific field of La\^ayounne.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0202528,
  title  = {Modelling a Dune Field},
  author = {A. R. Lima and G. Sauermann and H. J. Herrmann and K. Kroy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0202528},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 13 figures