Giles Wiggs Sheffield Centre for International Drylands Research Aeolian dune processes and dynamics 2004 Joint Assembly Montreal, Canada
Dunes in equilibrium…. Best 1993
Measurements of mean windspeed and sediment transport McKenna-Neumann et al 1997 Wiggs 2001 windspeed sand flux
Lancaster et al 1996 Measurements of shear velocity U*U* Wiggs 2001 mean shear velocity shear stress turbulence
Measurements of Reynolds turbulent stress Reynolds stress Streamline angle
Calibration of numerical models Parsons et al 2004
Other modelling approaches - complex systems Werner 1995 Momiji et al 2000 Baas 2002
Other modelling approaches - analytical solutions ( Hersen, Sauermann, Herrmann, Andreotti) Schwammle & Herrmann 2003 Hersen 2004
Hersen et al 2004 Output sand flux Dune width
Dunes in dis-equilibrium….? Parker Gay Jr 1999 Hersen 2004
Conclusions 1.dune research is in a healthy state! 2.measurements of airflow structure improving BUT requires improved understanding of turbulence / sediment transport relationships 3.calibration of computational models allowing greater understanding of form/flow interactions 4.results of analytical models suggest a requirement for more fieldwork focusing on: dynamics of sediment transfers at the dune and inter-dune scale longer time-series measurements of dune evolution