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We present here some general features of sand heaps and of dunes. We mainly discuss avalanche flows, using a modified version of the equations of Bouchaud et al., which might be valid for thick avalanches.
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Boutreux, T., Raphaël, E., de Gennes, P.G. (1999). Avalanches of dry sand. In: Pękalski, A., Sznajd-Weron, K. (eds) Anomalous Diffusion From Basics to Applications. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 519. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0106856
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