Coupled Odes model for the collision process of barchan dunes

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Japan

Volumn 57, Issue , 2009, Pages 179-184

  Nishimori, Hiraku ^a   Katsuki, Atsunari ^b   Sakamoto, Hiromi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARCHAN DUNES; COLLISION PROCESS; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; SIMPLE MODEL;

COALESCENCE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 77953780975     PISSN: 13480693     EISSN: 13494244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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