Barchan dunes on Mars and on Earth

Powders and Grains 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 959-962

  Parteli, E J R ^a   Schatz, V ^a   Herrmann, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARKHANGELSKY; BARCHAN DUNES; EROSION RATES; PHYSICAL VARIABLES; PLANET MARS; SAND TRANSPORT; SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARTH (PLANET); GRANULAR MATERIALS; MICROMECHANICS; POWDERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PLANETS;

EID: 33846395287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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