A high speed CMOS digital camera was used to record the process of sand grain collision with the sand bed. With the subsection addition image processing method
the temporal position of saltating sand grain was extracted from the experimental images
and the speed and angles of impacting and rebounding were also calculated. With the statistical method
some parameters of the collision process were presented
including the distributions of speed
energy recoverable coefficients and collision angles and these parameters displayed normal distribution. The results show that
during the period of collision between the sand grain and the sand bed
the lost kinetic energy is more than half of the total energy. Moreover
because the percentage of collision angles with more than 0° is up to 70%
the vertical speed of sand increases even if the kinetic energy decreases
which ensures that the sand particles can receive more energy from the air to keep on the saltation movement.
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