The characteristic of streamwise mass flux of windblown sand movement

Geomorphology

Volumn 139-140, Issue , 2012, Pages 188-194

  Wu, Jian Jun ^a   Luo, Sheng Hu ^a   He, Li Hong ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Saltation; Stratification pattern; Streamwise mass flux

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SALTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIFICATION; STREAM;

EID: 84856009484     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.10.017     Document Type: Article

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