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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-235-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-235-2021
Research article
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26 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 26 Mar 2021

Particle size dynamics in abrading pebble populations

András A. Sipos, Gábor Domokos, and János Török

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Abrasion of sedimentary particles is widely associated with mutual collisions. Utilizing results of individual, geometric abrasion theory and techniques adopted in statistical physics, a new model for predicting the collective mass evolution of large numbers of particles is introduced. Our model uncovers a startling fundamental feature of collective particle dynamics: collisional abrasion may either focus size distributions or it may act in the opposite direction by dispersing the distribution.