Sand ripples and dunes

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 469-493

  Charru, François ^a   Andreotti, Bruno ^b   Claudin, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

bed forms; instability; laminar flow; relaxation phenomena; sediment transport; turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; BED LOAD; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; ERODIBLE BEDS; INNER LAYER; LENGTH SCALE; LINEAR INSTABILITIES; MODE OF TRANSPORT; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; RELAXATION PHENOMENA; SAND RIPPLE; TIME-SCALES; UNIFIED DESCRIPTION;

FLUID DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; PHYSICS; PLASMA STABILITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBULENT FLOW;

VISCOELASTICITY;

BEDFORM; BEDLOAD; DUNE; EOLIAN PROCESS; ERODIBILITY; GAS FLOW; INSTABILITY; LAMINAR-TURBULENT TRANSITION; LIQUID; LITERATURE REVIEW; RIPPLE; SALTATION; SATURATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84872245673     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-011212-140806     Document Type: Review

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