Wind-blown particulate transport: A review of computational fluid dynamics models

Andrea Lo Giudice, Roberto Nuca, Luigi Preziosi, Nicolas Coste

1 Optiflow Company, 160 Chemin de la Madrague-Ville, Marseille, 13015, France
2 Department of Mathematical Sciences Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, 10129, Italy

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