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Barchans interacting with dune-size obstacles: details of the fluid flow and motion of grains

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Pith's one-line read This paper claims that a strong vortex forming between a subaqueous barchan's lee face and a dune-sized obstacle decides whether grains pass over it, flow around it, or get trapped.

desk verdict A solid grain-scale CFD-DEM study with a plausible vortex mechanism, but the trapped-case causal claim needs a wider-span control simulation before it holds. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.12630 v1 pith:US7NHKUP submitted 2025-06-14 physics.geo-ph physics.flu-dyn

Nicolao Cerqueira Lima , Willian Righi Assis , Danilo da Silva Borges , Erick de Moraes Franklin This is my paper · ORCID
classification physics.geo-phphysics.flu-dyn
keywords subaqueousbarchandunesdune-obstacleinteractionCFD-DEMlarge-eddysimulationhorseshoevortexrecirculationregiongrain-scaleforcedistributionbedloadtransport
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The reading

This paper asks why a subaqueous barchan dune sometimes climbs over a dune-sized obstacle, sometimes flows around it without touching it, and sometimes is trapped and destroyed. Using simulations that resolve the fluid near the grain scale and track every grain, the authors argue that the answer is a strong vortex that forms between the dune's lee face and the obstacle when the dune's recirculation region meets the obstacle's horseshoe vortex. In the bypass and trapped cases this vortex is strong enough to deflect the main flow and carry grains around the obstacle; in the pass-over case the obstacle is too narrow to generate a strong vortex, so central grains follow nearly straight paths over it. If correct, the result gives a mechanistic explanation for an earlier empirical classification of dune-obstacle encounters and a way to think about dunes approaching hills, crater rims, and human structures.

What carries the argument

The central object is the interaction vortex between the dune's lee face and the obstacle, produced when the recirculation region downstream of the barchan crest merges with the horseshoe vortex upstream of the obstacle. A horseshoe vortex is the wrapped, arch-like vortex that forms at the base of a wall-mounted obstacle in a boundary layer. The paper visualizes these structures with the Q-criterion, the second invariant of the velocity gradient tensor, at Q = 100, and shows the resulting vortex is much stronger in the bypass and trapped cases than in the pass-over case. The numerical machinery is an Euler-Lagrange CFD-DEM model with large-eddy simulation: the fluid is solved on a grid whose resolution approaches the grain diameter, each of the 100,000 glass grains is tracked at every time step, and the resultant force on each grain is computed directly from drag, pressure gradient, deviatoric stress, and virtual mass. The strength of this vortex, relative to grain inertia, is what the argument uses to explain all three outcomes.

What would settle it

Repeat the trapped-case simulation with a single isolated obstacle, or with side walls far away in the spanwise direction, and check whether the strong dune-obstacle vortex still appears and whether grains still follow circular paths into the recirculation region. Trapping without the vortex would falsify the central mechanism, while trapping only in the periodic side-by-side arrangement would show the result is a channeling effect of the repeated obstacles.

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Core claim

The paper claims that the outcome of a subaqueous barchan interacting with a dune-sized obstacle is set by a strong vortex that appears in the gap between the dune's lee face and the obstacle. This vortex forms from the interaction of two familiar flow structures: the recirculation region that exists downstream of a barchan crest and the horseshoe vortex that forms upstream of a wall-mounted prism. In the bypass and trapped cases the vortex is strong enough to deviate the main flow and carry grains around the obstacle, with trapped grains following approximately circular paths into the recirculation region downstream of it; in the pass-over case the obstacle is so narrow that its horseshoe vortex is too weak, and grains in the central region travel in nearly straight lines over the obstacle. Using grain-scale LES-DEM simulations, the paper also shows the distribution of the resultant force on each grain correlates with the fluid streamlines, and reports that in the trapped case 93 percent of grains end up trapped in the recirculation region. The authors present this as the first grain-scale view of the flow and forces during these interactions.

Load-bearing premise

The simulations model the obstacle as one in an endless row of identical obstacles, and in the widest-obstacle case the narrow gaps between copies may channel and accelerate grains; if that channeling causes the circular trapping paths, the vortex mechanism would not hold for a single isolated obstacle in nature.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • In subaqueous conditions, the outcome of a barchan-obstacle encounter should be predictable from the strength of the vortex formed where the dune's lee recirculation meets the obstacle's horseshoe vortex, relative to grain inertia.
  • Bypass and trapped cases will show curved or circular grain trajectories steered by that vortex, while pass-over cases will show nearly straight streamwise paths over the obstacle.
  • Because water-borne grains follow the flow closely, the same vortex mechanism should be much weaker for eolian dunes, where saltating grains carry more inertia; the paper explicitly warns against direct extrapolation to desert and Martian dunes.
  • Force maps on individual grains provide a grain-scale diagnostic: wide force distributions accompany trapping and dune destruction, while narrow distributions accompany straight pass-over motion.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A testable extension is to compute the circulation of the interaction vortex and compare it with the grain Stokes number; a threshold in that ratio would turn the empirical classification map into a mechanistic prediction.
  • If the mechanism holds for isolated obstacles, obstacle shape could be used deliberately: a wide or tall obstacle that triggers a strong horseshoe vortex would deflect sand around itself, while a narrow upright would be more likely to be overrun and buried.
  • The paper's own caveat suggests an immediate numerical check: run the trapped geometry with one isolated obstacle instead of the periodic side-by-side array; if the circular paths disappear, the reported trapping is partly a channeling artifact.
  • A saltation-resolving version of the same three geometries would test how far the vortex mechanism reaches into eolian conditions, where grain inertia is much larger than in water.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper reports grain-resolved CFD-DEM simulations of a subaqueous barchan interacting with a prismatic obstacle, in three configurations deliberately chosen from the classification map of Assis et al. (2023): bypass, pass-over, and trapped. The fluid is treated by LES and each grain by DEM, and the outputs are used to present dune morphologies, instantaneous streamlines, Q-criterion vortex visualizations, individual grain trajectories, and space-time averaged force distributions. The central mechanistic claim is that in the bypass and trapped cases a strong vortex formed by the interaction between the dune lee-side recirculation and the obstacle's horseshoe vortex is strong enough to divert the main flow and carry grains around the obstacle, while in the pass-over case this vortex is too weak. The paper concludes that the ratio of flow-disturbance strength to grain inertia sets the outcome, with strength decreasing in the order trapped, bypass, pass-over.

Significance. If substantiated, the paper would add a mechanistic explanation to the previously empirical barchan-obstacle outcome maps and would demonstrate a type of grain-scale force information that experiments in this setting cannot currently provide. The work has clear strengths: it uses open-source CFD-DEM tools, deposits the data and post-processing scripts, resolves the flow at grain scale, and reproduces the three experimentally reported outcome classes. The internal consistency between the flow visualizations, grain trajectories, and force maps in Figures 3, 4, 6, and 7 is a genuine contribution. However, the causal claim that the interaction vortex 'has enough strength' is currently supported only by qualitative visualizations with an arbitrary Q-criterion threshold, and the trapped case is contaminated by a periodic-domain channeling geometry. The central conclusion is therefore not yet established at the level claimed in the abstract.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 2.2] The spanwise periodic boundary condition turns the 70-mm-wide obstacle in a 100-mm-wide channel into an infinite side-by-side array with only a 30-mm free gap. The authors acknowledge in Section 2.2 that this can create channeling and accelerate particles in the trapped case, but no simulation with a wider span or with lateral walls is reported. Because the trapped outcome is one of the three central results, the observed circular grain paths and trapping in Figure 6c are equally compatible with gap channeling as with the proposed dune-obstacle vortex mechanism. A wider-domain or wall-bounded simulation of the trapped configuration is needed before the vortex can be assigned causal control in that case.
  2. [Sections 2.2, 3.1] The geometric setup is internally inconsistent. The text states that the obstacle is centered in the middle of the bottom wall in both the streamwise and spanwise directions, while Figure 1's caption places the initial pile 3 cm from the CFD inlet and the text says the pile is initially 2R (about 2.9 cm) upstream of the obstacle. If the obstacle were at mid-channel, the pile would start about 17 cm upstream, which contradicts the 2R statement; if the obstacle is 2R downstream, then all three cases have similar development distance. This matters because Section 3.1 states that in the trapped case the pile did not have enough time or distance to develop into a barchan. The geometry, development distance, and the claim about an undeveloped barchan in the trapped case need to be clarified.
  3. [Section 3.2, Figure 4] The key quantitative assertion that the interaction vortex 'has enough strength' to deviate the main flow and carry grains is supported only by the Q=100 iso-surfaces and by visual inspection of streamlines. No measure of vortex strength is reported, such as circulation, peak vorticity, core size, or a dimensionless ratio comparing vortex-induced forces to grain inertia, and the Q-criterion threshold is arbitrary. The ordering in the Conclusions (trapped, bypass, pass-over) is therefore not backed by a quantitative metric. I ask for a quantitative vortex-strength comparison across the three cases, and ideally a direct link between that metric and the grain-force PDFs of Figure 8.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 2.2, Table 1] The text says y+ remained close to 1 near the wall, but Table 1 lists y+_avg values of about 10.6. Please clarify what the two quantities represent and why the average is an order of magnitude larger.
  2. [Section 3.2, Figures 4 and 5] The figure callouts in the paragraph describing the pass-over case are confused: the text refers to 'Figure 5b' when discussing the weak vortices of the pass-over case, and then says the pass-over case is plotted at t=100 s and t=200 s in Figures 5a and 5b. The figure numbering and cross-references should be corrected.
  3. [Section 2.2, Equation 9] The void-fraction smoothing length lambda=3d is imposed without sensitivity analysis; since lambda is a free parameter of the method, at least one sensitivity check or a justification from the earlier validation of Lima et al. (2022) should be given.
  4. [Section 3.3] The counts of grains touching the obstacle are based on data stored every 5000 DEM time steps, as the authors note. The 0.3% versus 20% comparison should be presented explicitly as an order-of-magnitude indicator rather than as a resolved grain count.
  5. [Section 3.1] The comparison with the experiments of Assis et al. (2023) for the trapped case is qualitative ('the number of grains entrained further downstream seems a little higher'). A quantitative comparison, or a statement that only the outcome class is being compared, would be more appropriate.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 2.0 of 10

No load-bearing circularity; the vortex mechanism is emergent from grain-scale physics, with only minor self-citation to the authors' own classification map.

full rationale

Score 2 rather than 0 because the paper selects its three simulated cases from the authors' own ad hoc classification map (Assis et al., 2023) and treats agreement with that map as validation; this is a minor self-citation, but it is not load-bearing. The central mechanistic claim—that a vortex resulting from the interaction of the dune's lee recirculation with the obstacle's horseshoe vortex carries grains around the obstacle in the bypass and trapped cases—does not reduce by construction to any fitted input. The Navier–Stokes/LES and DEM equations (Eqs. 1–10) contain no outcome variable; the three outcomes emerge from grain-scale physics, and the vortex is diagnosed a posteriori from the velocity field via the Q-criterion (Eq. 10) and corroborated by independent DEM grain trajectories (Fig. 6) and per-grain force maps (Fig. 7). No parameter is fitted to force agreement with the map; material and flow parameters (Table 2, Section 2.2) are stated physical inputs. The mechanism also rests on external horseshoe-vortex literature (Baines, 1963; Castro & Robins, 1977; Martinuzzi & Tropea, 1993) and on open-source solvers (OpenFOAM, LIGGGHTS, CFDEM), making the citation chain independent of the authors' own prior results. The admitted spanwise-periodic channeling in the trapped case (Section 2.2: 'the free spanwise distance between obstacles is 30 mm, which can create channeling and accelerate particles') is a disclosed limitation of external validity for a single isolated obstacle, not a circular step: the vortex mechanism is not defined in terms of that channeling. The self-citation to Assis et al. (2023) is therefore minor and non-load-bearing, consistent with a score of 2, while the central derivation is otherwise self-contained.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are postulated; the 'strong vortex' is a standard fluid-mechanical structure, not an invented entity. The free parameters are analysis and numerical choices, not fitted constants. The axioms are the key modeling assumptions that the simulation outcomes rest on.

free parameters (4)
  • Void-fraction smoothing length lambda = 3d (imposed)
    Chosen to smooth the void fraction and coupling forces; affects how precisely grain-scale flow structures are captured near the bed.
  • Q-criterion threshold = 100
    Chosen for vortex visualization; only qualitative, but shapes the evidence for the claimed vortex.
  • Moving-grain threshold = 0.1 u*
    Used to define 'moving' grains for trajectory plots; affects trajectory statistics, not the central mechanism.
  • Force averaging window and mesh = 40 s and 0.6 mm x 0.6 mm
    Analysis choices for the force maps and PDFs; do not alter the qualitative conclusions but affect reported distributions.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The unresolved CFD-DEM approach (with drag, pressure gradient, deviatoric stress, and virtual mass forces, neglecting Basset, Saffman, and Magnus forces) adequately captures subaqueous bedload transport.
    Invoked in Section 2.1; the central results depend on the fluid forces on grains being computed correctly despite unresolved particle-fluid coupling.
  • domain assumption The WALE LES model with near-wall y+ close to 1 resolves the recirculation and horseshoe vortex structures that drive the interaction.
    Section 2.2; if the subgrid model smears these vortices, the claimed mechanism would be an artifact.
  • ad hoc to paper The spanwise periodic boundary condition is equivalent to the lateral walls of the experiments for the flow around the obstacle.
    Section 2.2; acknowledged as possibly affecting the trapped case; load-bearing for that outcome.
  • ad hoc to paper The initial conical pile of 10^5 grains develops into a barchan before encountering the obstacle in the bypass and pass-over cases.
    Sections 2.2 and 3.1; the authors admit the trapped-case pile does not fully develop, so the trapped outcome may not represent a barchan-obstacle interaction.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Barchans interacting with dune-size obstacles: details of the fluid flow and motion of grains},
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We investigate details of the interaction of subaqueous barchans with dune-size obstacles by carrying out numerical simulations where the fluid is solved at the grain scale and the motions of individual grains are computed at all time steps. With the outputs, we analyze the disturbances of the fluid flow, the trajectories of grains, and the resultant force on each grain, the latter being unfeasible from experiments and field measurements. We show that in some cases particles pass over the obstacle, while in others they completely circumvent it (without touching it), or are even blocked. For the circumvention and blocking cases, which we call bypass and trapped, respectively, we show the existence of a strong vortex between the lee face of the dune and the obstacle. This vortex results from the interactions of recirculation regions and horseshoe vortices, and has enough strength to deviate the main flow and carry grains around the obstacle in those cases. Our results shed light on the reasons for passing over, circumventing, and blocking, and contribute to our understanding of dunes in the presence of large obstacles such as hills, crater rims, and human constructions.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.12630 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. (a) Layout of the numerical setup, showing the channel dimensions, the flow di￾rection, the initial pile, the obstacle, and the dune and obstacle at a posterior time (the obstacle remained in the same place, in the figure it is displaced for visualization purposes only). In all cases, the upstream pile was initially placed at 3 cm from the CFD inlet. (b) Simulated cases in the interaction map proposed by Assis et al… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Snapshots showing top view images of a dune interacting with the obstacle for the (a) bypass, (b) pass over, and (c) trapped cases. The time instants are shown on the bottom left of each snapshot. are more accessible than experiments (in the case of forces, simulations are currently the only option). Movies showing the motion of grains during the interactions of Figures 2a, 2b and 2c are available in the Supporting … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Streamlines (instantaneous) at different stages of the barchan-obstacle interaction, for the (a) bypass, (b) pass over, and (c) trapped cases. In each panel, the upper row shows top view and the lower row perspective images, and the colorbar on the right corresponds to the magnitude of the velocity. vortex is virtually absent. Later, Castro and Robins (1977) confirmed that the incom￾ing flow is important, with the s… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Visualization of vortices and grains in the (a) bypass, (b) pass over, and (c) trapped cases. The vortices are visualized using the Q-criterion with Q = 100, times are indi￾cated on the panels, and the colorbar corresponds to the magnitude of the vorticity. the grains …
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of vortices and grains (left) and only grains (right) for the pass over case, in two different instants: (a) t = 100 s; (b) t = 200 s. The vortices are visualized using the Q-criterion with Q = 100, times are indicated on the panels, and the colorbar corr…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Trajectories of individual grains for the (a) bypass, (b) pass over and (c) trapped cases. In the panels, the small circles represent the starting point of the considered particle, the black crosses represent its final position, the large circle is the mean perimeter o…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Snapshots showing top view images of a dune colored in accordance with the av￾erage level of the resultant force of individual grains. The forces were space averaged in 0.6 mm × 0.6 mm meshes, and then time averaged over 40 s. (a) and (b) longitudinal ⟨Fx⟩ and trans￾ve…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Probability density functions (PDFs) of the longitudinal ⟨Fx ⟩ (in blue) and trans￾verse ⟨Fz ⟩ (in red) components of forces plotted in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png]

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