Bend theory of river meanders with spatial width variations

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 681, Issue , 2011, Pages 311-339

  Luchi, Rossella ^a,b   Zolezzi, Guido ^a   Tubino, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

river dynamics; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CHANNEL ASPECT RATIOS; CURVATURE VARIATION; DEPTH-AVERAGED MODELING; DIMENSIONLESS AMPLITUDE; LONGITUDINAL OSCILLATIONS; MECHANISTIC INTERPRETATIONS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; RIVER DYNAMICS;

RIVERS;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOW STABILITY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; MEANDER; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80052140926     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.200     Document Type: Article

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