The Morphodynamics Lab

We are working on the way forms appear spontaneouly in Nature. We have worked on different questions regarding dunes, avalanches, sand ripples, but also the dynamcis of droplets, the venation of leaves, etc...

Recent Publications

• Booming dune instability
  B. Andreotti & L. Bonneau, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 238001 (2009).
  
  
• Giant aeolian dune size determined by the average depth of the atmospheric boundary layer
  B. Andreotti, P. Claudin, A. Fourrière, F. Ould-Kadddour & B. Murray, Nature, 457, 1120-1123 (2009).
  
  
• Evidence of Raleigh-Hertz surface waves and shear stiffness anomaly in granular media
  Bonneau L., Andreotti B. & Clément E., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 118001 (2008).
  
  
• Thick films coating a plate withdrawn from a bath
  Snoeijer J.H. , Ziegler J., Andreotti B. , Fermigier M. & Eggers J. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244502 (2008).
  
  
• Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes
  H. Elbelrhiti, P. Claudin and B. Andreotti, Nature 437, 720 (2005).
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