Explicit Two-Phase Modeling of the Initiation of Saltation over Heterogeneous Sand Beds
Francis Alexander Turney1, Jasper F Kok2, Raleigh L. Martin3, Devon M Burr4, Nathan Bridges5, Carlos Pompeyo Ortiz6, James Emerson Smith IV7, Joshua P Emery4 and Jon T Van Lew8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (7)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States