Rhombus-shaped erosion patterns


Rhombus shaped erosion pattern, formed by erosion on a beach, Goleta, CA


Numerical simulation of the above pattern (see also Pierre-Yves Lagrée's webpage)


The same, experimentally reproduced at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris


  • Stability of bedforms in laminar flows with free-surface: from bars to ripples, O. Devauchelle, L. Malverti, É. Lajeunesse, P.-Y. Lagrée, C. Josserand and K.-D. Nguyen Thu-Lam, submitted to J. Fluid Mech.

  • Rhomboid Beach Pattern: a Benchmark for Shallow Water Geomorphology, O. Devauchelle, L. Malverti, É. Lajeunesse, C. Josserand, P.-Y. Lagrée and F. Métivier, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface

  • Erosion shock wave in laminar flumes, O. Devauchelle, É. Lajeunesse, F. Métivier, L. Malverti, C. Josserand, P.-Y. Lagrée and S. Zaleski, MARID 2008 Workshop, (preprint in pdf)


  • Poster, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, December 2008 (ODP, 4.7 M, in English)

  • Presentation at the American Physical Society - DFD annual meeting, November 2007 (PDF, 1.8 M, in English)

  • Presentation at the GDR Milieux Divisés meeting, May 2007 (PDF, 1M, in French)


    • Sharp front formation by erosion, numerical simulation


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