JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

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[JJ] 口頭発表

セッション記号 H (地球人間圏科学) » H-GM 地形学

[H-GM04] [JJ] 地形

2017年5月22日(月) 09:00 〜 10:30 105 (国際会議場 1F)

コンビーナ:島津 弘(立正大学地球環境科学部地理学科)、瀬戸 真之(福島大学うつくしま福島未来支援センター)、座長:八反地 剛(筑波大学生命環境系)

09:35 〜 09:50

[HGM04-03] 粗視化数理模型を用いた砂丘分布

*勝木 厚成1 (1.日本大学)

キーワード:砂丘、サイズ分布

Sand dunes are found in many places such as deserts, the sea bottom and the surface of Mars.Most fascinated dune is barchan, which is crescent dune. We reproduced many barchans in numerical simulations and investigate the dynamics. The motion of sand grains is realized by two processes: saltation and avalanche. Saltation is the transportation process of sand grains by flow. We reproduced a lot of barchans in numerical field by above model. Barchan releases sand from tips of two horns. The downwind barchan can capture the sand stream. Also, barchans sometimes collide each other. These direct and indirect interaction forms complex barchan fields. The size distribution of a few thousand of barchans is fitted by lognormal distribution well. This indicated that the small barchans exist around the large ones and the large barchans are around small barchans. The average size of barchans increase as the amount of supplied sand do.