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Incident Angle of Saltating Particles in Wind-Blown Sand

Incident angle of saltating particles plays a very important role in aeolian events. In this paper, the incident angles of sand particles near the sand bed were measured in wind tunnel. It reveals that the incident angles range widely from 0° to 180° and thereby the means of angles are larger than p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Fu, Lin-Tao, Bo, Tian-Li, Gu, Hai-Hua, Zheng, Xiao-Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3706613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23874470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067935
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Sumario:Incident angle of saltating particles plays a very important role in aeolian events. In this paper, the incident angles of sand particles near the sand bed were measured in wind tunnel. It reveals that the incident angles range widely from 0° to 180° and thereby the means of angles are larger than published data. Surprisingly, it is found the proportion that angles of 5°–15° occupy is far below previous reports. The measuring height is probably the most important reason for the measurement differences between this study and previous investigations.