In order to analyze the response frequency of saltating particles to turbulence
the fluid-particle synchronous measurements were carried out in a boundary layer wind-tunnel with different particle sizes. A high-speed digital camera was employed to record consecutive instantaneous images of the saltating particles at 2 000 frames per second to calculate the particle concentration
and the turbulent velocity fluctuation in the saltation layer was obtained simultaneously by a hot-wire anemometer. The results show that the saltation transport of sand particles is a typical stochastic process. The variations of the particle concentration are closely dependent only on the turbulent flow at low-frequency band. Moreover
the wavelet packet analysis shows that the low frequency section lower than 500 Hz of the particle concentration dominates the energy structure of sand-phase. In addition
the effects of a fluctuating wind on particle concentration are different for various particle sizes. For the smaller sand(100-125 μm)
the threshold response frequency of particle concentration to turbulence is about 40 Hz while the frequency value is roughly 30 Hz for the larger sand(300-500 μm).
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