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Experimental results are presented which illustrate the effects of permanent surface obstructions on saltation phenomena. It is shown that the topographic drift geometry and the dimensionless erosion rates of windward erosion associated with cylindrical obstacles are strong functions of the cylinder aspect ratio. For short cylinders, there is also significant erosion taking place in the far wake. These two erosional areas develop due to different sets of separation vortex systems. For multi-element roughness arrays, sparse array data are presented which illustrate the increase of threshold friction speed with element frontal area density and roughness element drag coefficient.
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Iversen, J.D., Wang, W.P., Rasmussen, K.R., Mikkelsen, H.E., Leach, R.N. (1991). Roughness element effect on local and universal saltation transport. In: Barndorff-Nielsen, O.E., Willetts, B.B. (eds) Aeolian Grain Transport. Acta Mechanica Supplementum, vol 2. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6703-8_5
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