Turbidity current hydraulics and sediment deposition in erodible sinuous channels: Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 222-249

  Janocko, M ^a   Cartigny, M B J ^b   Nemec, W ^a   Hansen, E W M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Flow Design Bureau AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Channel bars; Channel bend; Laboratory experiment; Meandering; Numerical simulation; Sinuous channel; Turbidity current

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL BEND; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEANDERING; SINUOUS CHANNEL; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

BARS (METAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULICS; LABORATORIES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRAIGHTENING; SUBMARINES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AGGRADATION; DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENTATION; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

HELICOIDEA;

EID: 84873985857     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.08.012     Document Type: Article

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