Song of the dunes as a self-synchronized instrument

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Douady, S ^a   Manning, A ^a   Hersen, P ^a,b   Elbelrhiti, H ^c,d   Protiere S ^a   Daerr, A ^c   Kabbachi, B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d GEOenvironement des Milieux ARIdes   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ACOUSTICS LABORATORIES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ACOUSTIC EXCITATION; SAND GRAINS; SELF-SYNCHRONIZED INSTRUMENT; SINGING DUNES;

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; MUSIC; SOIL; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; MUSIC; SOIL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

EID: 33745780544     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.018002     Document Type: Article

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