The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

Loess deposits are recorders of aeolian activity during past glaciations. Since the size
distribution of loess deposits depends on distance to the dust source, and environmental …

Mineral dust aerosols impact Earth's radiation budget through interactions with clouds,
ecosystems, and radiation, which constitutes a substantial uncertainty in understanding past …

Providing an introduction to the theory of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, this book
discusses fundamental properties of transient and stationary solutions, emphasizing the …

Fragmentation phenomena are reviewed with a particular emphasis on processes that give
rise to drops—in the broad sense, the process of atomization. Various observations are …

Introduced by the late Per Bak and his colleagues, self-organized criticality (SOC) has been
one of the most stimulating concepts to come out of statistical mechanics and condensed …

Slip avalanches are ubiquitous phenomena occurring in three-dimensional materials under
shear strain, and their study contributes immensely to our understanding of plastic …

We investigate fracture and fragmentation of solids due to impact at low energies using a
two-dimensional dynamical model of granular solids. Simulating collisions of two solid disks …

We present a model of solids made from polygonal cells connected via beams. We calculate
the macroscopic elastic moduli from the beam and cell parameters. This modellisation is …

A numerical model of fragmentation of a two-dimensional granular medium under pressure
is investigated. The fragmentation process is found to be strongly dependent on the type of …