Bedforms in a turbulent stream: Formation of ripples by primary linear instability and of dunes by nonlinear pattern coarsening

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 649, Issue , 2010, Pages 287-328

  Fourrière, Antoine ^a   Claudin, Philippe ^a   Andreotti, Bruno ^a  

^a ESPCI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COARSENING; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; OSTWALD RIPENING; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR STRESS; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; DISTRIBUTION OF GRAINS; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; LINEAR INSTABILITIES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL; STANDING GRAVITY WAVES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

SHEAR FLOW;

DUNE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STABILITY; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEARITY; NONLINEARITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RIPPLE; RIVER FLOW; SATURATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; STREAMFLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; THRESHOLD; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER DEPTH;

AQUITAINE; FRANCE; LEYRE RIVER;

EID: 77952387245     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009993466     Document Type: Article

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