Bifurcation modelling in a meandering gravel-sand bed river

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1556-1566

  Sloff, Kees ^a   Mosselman, Erik ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Graded sediment; Numerical modeling; Rhine; River bifurcations; River morphology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CALIBRATION AND VERIFICATION; CONSTANT DISCHARGE; DISTRIBUTION POINTS; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; FLUME EXPERIMENT; MODEL FORMULATION; MORPHOLOGICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL MODELLING; MORPHOLOGICAL STABILITY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLANFORM; RHINE; RIVER BED; RIVER BIFURCATION; RIVER MORPHOLOGY;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); GRAVEL; MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WATER SUPPLY;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BED ROUGHNESS; BIFURCATION; CALIBRATION; FLUME EXPERIMENT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; MEANDER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER BED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84868115168     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3305     Document Type: Article

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