Configurational energy and the formation of mixed flowing/powder snow and ice avalanches
A long-standing problem in avalanche dynamics is to model the flow of a mixed flowing/powder avalanche. Here we use the thermodynamic concept of configurational energy to describe the blow-out of air from the avalanche core. Configurational energy is the mean potential energy associated with the loc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Annals of Glaciology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305500000197/type/journal_article |