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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2019

Boltzmann Distribution of Sediment Transport

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The coupling of sediment transport with the flow that drives it allows rivers to shape their own bed. Cross-stream fluxes of sediment play a crucial, yet poorly understood, role in this process. Here, we track particles in a laboratory flume to relate their statistical behavior to the self organization of the granular bed they make up. As they travel downstream, the transported grains wander randomly across the bed's surface, thus inducing cross-stream diffusion. The balance of diffusion and gravity results in a peculiar Boltzmann distribution, in which the bed's roughness plays the role of thermal fluctuations, while its surface forms the potential well that confines the sediment flux.
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hal-02173005 , version 1 (04-07-2019)

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A. Abramian, O. Devauchelle, G. Seizilles, E. Lajeunesse. Boltzmann Distribution of Sediment Transport. Physical Review Letters, 2019, 123 (1), pp.014501. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.014501⟩. ⟨hal-02173005⟩
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