Reduced-complexity modeling of free bar morphodynamics in alluvial channels

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Nicholas, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED ROUGHNESS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LABORATORY METHOD; MORPHODYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 78649519854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001774     Document Type: Article

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