Morphodynamic modelling of open-sea tidal channels eroded into a sandy seabed, with reference to the channel systems on the China coast

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 255-263

  Xie, Dongfeng ^a,b   Gao, Shu ^a   Wang, Ya Ping ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED LOAD TRANSPORT RATE; BED SLOPE; CHANNEL SYSTEMS; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; FLOW CONSTRICTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; ONE DIMENSIONAL (1 D) MODELS; SANDY SEABED; TIDAL CHANNELS;

BEDLOAD; CURRENT VELOCITY; EROSION RATE; FLOW FIELD; MODELING; MORPHODYNAMICS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OPEN OCEAN; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDAL CHANNEL; WATER DEPTH;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 48449103428     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-008-0106-6     Document Type: Article

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