Computational simulations of blown sand fluxes over the surfaces of complex microtopography

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-367

  Feng, Shi ^a   Ning, Huang ^a,b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Minqin National Studies Station for Desert Steppe Ecosystem   (China)

Author keywords

Computational simulation; Friction velocity; Sand flux; Sand transport; Wind field modeling

Indexed keywords

BARCHAN DUNES; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; DUNE FIELDS; IN-FIELD; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SAND FLUX; SAND SALTATION; SAND TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT FLUX; SIMULATION RESULT; WIND FIELD MODELING; WIND FIELD PATTERNS; WIND PATTERNS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FRICTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIMULATORS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TUNNELS;

SAND;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DUNE; FRICTION; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALTATION; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND FIELD; WIND TUNNEL;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NORTH AMERICA;

PROSOPIS;

EID: 71649103785     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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