Bin Yang, Yu Fu, Yuanwei Lin, Yang Zhang, Jianjun Qu
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Abstract
This study investigates the evolution of downsized barchan dunes in a water tunnel experiment, emphasizing the influence of inflow velocity on their crescent-shaped attractor. Based on image processing methods, the kinematic and morphological features of barchan dune evolution are determined. The results reveal that the varying inflow velocity will affect the crescent-shaped attractor. Furthermore, a cubic relationship is established between flow velocity and the aspect ratio of barchan dunes. Additionally, there is a morphological threshold in the evolution of the crescent-shaped attractor to evaluate its stability. This study highlights the sensitivity of the crescent-shaped attractor to inflow velocity and confirms its steady evolutionary pattern, and it provides a new perspective on the formation of the barchan dune swarms in the field of wind-blown sand dynamics.
期刊介绍：
Although many phenomena observed in granular materials are still not yet fully understood, important contributions have been made to further our understanding using modern tools from statistical mechanics, micro-mechanics, and computational science.
These modern tools apply to disordered systems, phase transitions, instabilities or intermittent behavior and the performance of discrete particle simulations.
>> Until now, however, many of these results were only to be found scattered throughout the literature. Physicists are often unaware of the theories and results published by engineers or other fields - and vice versa.
The journal Granular Matter thus serves as an interdisciplinary platform of communication among researchers of various disciplines who are involved in the basic research on granular media. It helps to establish a common language and gather articles under one single roof that up to now have been spread over many journals in a variety of fields. Notwithstanding, highly applied or technical work is beyond the scope of this journal.
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