Chaotic pattern dynamics on sun-melted snow
This thesis describes the comparison of time-lapse field observations of suncups on alpine snow with numerical simulations. The simulations consist of solutions to a nonlinear partial differential equation which exhibits spontaneous pattern formation from a low amplitude, random initial surface. Bot...
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University of British Columbia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2611 |