Lima, A.R; Sauermann, G; Herrmann, H.J; Kroy, K - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 310 (2002) 3, pp. 487-500
We present a model to describe the collective motion of barchan dunes in a field. Our model is able to reproduce the observation that a typical dune stays confined within a stripe. We also obtain some of the pattern structures which resemble those observed from aerial photos which we do analyse...