Singing sands, musical grains and booming sand dunes
The origin of the acoustic emissions from a bed of musical grains, impacted by a pestle, is sought in a boundary layer at the leading front of the pestle. The frequencies of the shear modes of vibration in such a layer are compared with the observed frequencies. It is assumed that such a layer is th...
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2008
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| Online Access: | The second version was published as: Patitsas, A.J., "Singing sands, musical grains and booming sand dunes", Journal of Physical and Natural Sciences, vol. 2, issue 1, 2008. http://www.scientificjournals.org https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/301 |