Modeling river delta formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 43, 2007, Pages 16804-16809

  Seybold, Hansjörg ^a   Andrade Jr , José S ^b   Herrmann, Hans J ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fractals; Lattice model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 36749009659     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705265104     Document Type: Article

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