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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH  2011, Vol. 31 Issue (3): 588-592    DOI:
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Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Sand Saltation under Sinusoidal Wind Variations
PENG Xiao-qing, WANG Ping
Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Mechanics on Disaster and Environment in Western China/School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Abstract  Numerical simulations of one dimensional unsteady sand saltation process involving aerodynamic entrainment, sand particle motion, splash process and wind-sand coupling interaction present the evolution of wind-blown sand particles under sinusoidal wind variations. Effects of wind frequency/period and amplitude on sand transport rate are discussed. Variations of sand transport rate, wind profile, shear stress and sand number flux from bed with wind variations are shown. The results indicate that sand transport rate increases as wind amplitude increases, whereas decrease as wind frequency increases. The plot of bed shear stress against time shows a rapid decrease before "overshoot" and varies very little after that. The sand number flux from bed however varies periodically with wind.
Key words:  sinusoidal wind variations      unsteady      wind-blown sand saltation      numerical simulation     
Received:  01 December 2010      Published:  20 May 2011
ZTFLH:  X169  
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PENG Xiao-qing;WANG Ping. Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Sand Saltation under Sinusoidal Wind Variations. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2011, 31(3): 588-592.

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