Numerical computation showing an initial heap being deformed into a barchan dune (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Numerical computation showing an initial heap being deformed into a barchan dune

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Numerical computation showing an initial heap (on the left) being deformed into a barchan dune (on the right). The dune consisted of 100,000 grains, all of them individually tracked along time.

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Erick Franklin

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