Fluvial sedimentary patterns

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2010, Pages 43-66

  Seminara, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bars; Dunes; Meander; Morphodynamics; Sediment transport; Stability

Indexed keywords

BARS; DIFFERENT SCALE; DUNES; EARTH'S SURFACE; FLOW INSTABILITIES; FREE-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; INTERFACIAL WAVES; LIQUID-SOLID INTERFACES; MORPHODYNAMICS; OR CHANNELS; RIVER BASINS; SUBMARINE ENVIRONMENT;

ARID REGIONS; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

BAR; BEDFORM; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DUNE; ERODIBILITY; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; MEANDER; MORPHODYNAMICS; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77952858554     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-121108-145612     Document Type: Review

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