A stochastic model for sand sorting in a wind-tunnel
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The wind exerts a sorting effect on particles of sands and, under certain stable conditions that occur frequently but whose nature is little understood, the sorting results in log-size distributions of the hyperbolic form, first noted by R. A. Bagnold. Here, for wind-tunnel experiments a stochastic model is constructed which exhibits a sorting effect deriving from the dependence of distance travelled on the size of the single particle. Under rather specific, experimentally testable assumptions the model reproduces log-size distributions which are of the hyperbolic type and show a variation with distance along the wind tunnel that accords with experimental findings of R. A. Bagnold.
1981 ◽
Vol 13
(02)
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pp. 282-297
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1984 ◽
Vol 30
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pp. 185-195
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2014 ◽
Vol 555
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pp. 012028
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