publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2025

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    Resultant force on grains of a real sand dune: How to measure it?
    Renato F Miotto, Carlos A Alvarez, Danilo S Borges, and 2 more authors
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2025
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    Ripples formed in low-pressure wind tunnels suggest Mars’s large windblown ripples are not impact ripples
    Carlos A Alvarez, Mathieu GA Lapôtre, Christy Swann, and 1 more author
    Nature Communications, 2025
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    Aerodynamic roughness of rippled beds under active saltation at Earth-to-Mars atmospheric pressures
    Carlos A Alvarez, Mathieu GA Lapôtre, Christy Swann, and 3 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2025

2024

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    Direct measurements of dust settling velocity under low-density atmospheres using time-resolved Particle Image Velocimetry
    Carlos A Alvarez, Andrew Gunn, Christy Swann, and 3 more authors
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2024
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    Barchan-barchan dune repulsion investigated at the grain scale
    Nicolao Cerqueira Lima, Willian Righi Assis, Carlos Azael Alvarez, and 1 more author
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2024

2022

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    Grain-scale computations of barchan dunes
    Nicolao C Lima, Willian R Assis, Carlos A Alvarez, and 1 more author
    Physics of Fluids, 2022

2021

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    Force distribution within a barchan dune
    Carlos A Alvarez and Erick M Franklin
    Physics of Fluids, 2021
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    Growth of barchan dunes of bidispersed granular mixtures
    Carlos A Alvarez, Fernando David Cúñez, and Erick M Franklin
    Physics of fluids, 2021

2020

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    Shape evolution of numerically obtained subaqueous barchan dunes
    Carlos A. Alvarez and Erick de Moraes Franklin
    Physical Review E, 2020

2019

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    Horns of subaqueous barchan dunes: A study at the grain scale
    Carlos A. Alvarez and Erick M. Franklin
    Physical Review E, 2019

2018

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    Role of transverse displacements in the formation of subaqueous barchan dunes
    Carlos A. Alvarez and Erick M. Franklin
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018

2017

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    Intermittent gravity-driven flow of grains through narrow pipes
    Carlos A. Alvarez and Erick de Moraes Franklin
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017
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    Birth of a subaqueous barchan dune
    Carlos A Alvarez and Erick de Moraes Franklin
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2017

2015

  1. Length scale of density waves in the gravitational flow of fine grains in pipes
    Erick Moraes Franklin and Carlos Alvarez Zambrano
    Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 2015