Wind tunnel experimental investigation of sand velocity in aeolian sand transport

Geomorphology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 438-450

  Kang, Liqiang ^a,b   Guo, Liejin ^b   Gu, Zhengmeng ^b   Liu, Dayou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aeolian sand transport; PDPA; Probability distribution; Sand velocity; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN PROCESS; FLOW VELOCITY; PROBABILITY; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 42649110692     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.08.018     Document Type: Article

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