Numerical simulation of sand transfer in wind storm using the Eulerian-Lagrangian two-phase flow model

Vahid Sarafrazi1, Mohammad Reza Talaee2

  • 1School of Railway Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), 16846-13114, Tehran, Iran.

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