Abstract
Sand dunes are ubiquitous in deserts, on coasts, on the sea bottom, and
on the surface of Mars, Venus and Titan. The quantitative understanding
of dune dynamics is thus of relevance for a broad range of physical,
geological and planetary sciences. A morphodynamic model for dunes,
which combines an analytical description of the average turbulent wind
field over the topography with a continuum saltation model, has proven
successful to quantitatively reproduce the shape of aeolian dunes of
different types. We present a short review on the physics of dune
formation and the model development, as well as some future plans for
further developments and applications.
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