A reduced-complexity model for river delta formation - Part 1: Modeling deltas with channel dynamics

Earth Surface Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-86

  Liang, M ^a,c   Voller, V R ^a   Paola, C ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DELTA; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOW FIELD; MORPHODYNAMICS; REDUCTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84937520867     PISSN: 21966311     EISSN: 2196632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esurf-3-67-2015     Document Type: Article

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