Selection of dune shapes and velocities Part 2: A two-dimensional modelling |
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Authors: | B Andreotti P Claudin S Douady |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'école Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, FR;(2) Laboratoire des Milieux Désordonnés et Hétérogènes, 4 place Jussieu - case 86, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France, FR |
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Abstract: | We present in this paper a simplification of the dune model proposed by Sauermann et al. which keeps the basic mechanisms but allows analytical and parametric studies. Two kinds of purely propagative two dimensional
solutions are exhibited: dunes and domes. The latter, by contrast to the former, do not present a slip face. Their shape and
velocity can be predicted as a function of their size. We recover that dune profiles are not scale invariant (small dunes
are flatter than the large ones), and that the inverse of the velocity grows almost linearly with the dune size. We furthermore
get the existence of a critical mass below which no dune solution exists. It rises the problem of dune nucleation: how can
dunes appear if any bump below this minimal mass gets eroded and disappears? The linear stability analysis of a flat sand
bed shows that it is unstable at large wavelengths: dune can in fact nucleate from a small sand mass if the proto-dune is
sufficiently long.
Received 22 December 2001 / Received in final form 31 May 2002 Published online 31 July 2002 |
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Keywords: | PACS 45 70 -n Granular systems – 47 54 +r Pattern selection pattern formation |
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