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Modelling a Dune Field

A. R. Lima, G. Sauermann, H. J. Herrmann, K. Kroy

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0202528

Abstract

We present a model to describe the collective motion of barchan dunes in a field. Our model is able to reproduce the observation that a typical dune stays confined within a stripe. We also obtain some of the pattern structures which ressemble those observed from aerial photos which we do analyse and compare with the specific field of Laâyounne.

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