CSDMS 2013 annual meeting poster Andrew Nicholas
Morphodynamic modeling of large anabranching rivers
Abstract:
The morphodynamics of large anabranching sand-bed rivers is investigated using a numerical model of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, bank erosion and floodplain development, operating over periods of several hundred years. Model sensitivity to key parameters is examined, and simulated channel and natural river morphology are compared in terms of the statistical characteristics of channel width, depth and bar shape distributions, and mechanisms of unit bar, compound bar and island evolution. Model results provide insight into controls on the frequency of mobile sand bars and the stability of larger vegated islands.
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