Solitary wave behaviour of sand dunes

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6967, 2003, Pages 619-620

  Schwämmle, Veit ^a   Herrmann, Hans J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE; SOLITARY WAVE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

EID: 19244368543     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/426619a     Document Type: Article

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