Title: Scaling laws for planetary sediment transport from DEM-RANS numerical simulations.
We use an established discrete element method (DEM) Reynolds-averaged
Navier--Stokes (RANS)-based numerical model to simulate non-suspended sediment
transport across conditions encompassing almost seven orders of magnitude in
the particle--fluid density ratio $s$, ranging from subaqueous transport
($s=2.65$) to a [...]
Title: Scaling laws for planetary sediment transport from DEM-RANS numerical simulations.
We use an established DEM-RANS-based numerical model to simulate nonsuspended
sediment transport across conditions encompassing almost seven orders of
magnitude in the particle-fluid-density ratio $s$, ranging from subaqueous
transport ($s=2.65$) to aeolian transport in the highly rarefied atmosphere of
Pluto ($s [...]
Title: Scaling laws for planetary sediment transport from grain scale-resolved numerical simulations.
Aeolian sediment transport shapes erodible surfaces and affects the dust
cycles and climates of planetary bodies. For the approximately unidirectional
near-surface winds often temporarily prevailing in planetary atmospheres,
sediment transport approaches an equilibrium state when given enough fetch to [...]
Title: Scaling and phase diagrams of planetary sediment transport.
Sediment transport by atmospheric winds shapes the surface and affects the
climates of planetary bodies. Reliably predicting the occurrence and rate of
sediment transport in the Solar System has been notoriously difficult because
fluid density, grain size and soil cohesiveness vary across many orders of
magnitude. Her [...]
Authors: Thomas Pähtz, Orencio Duŕan, Francesco Comola