Movie:The Development of An Experimental Meandering River
Information Page: The Development of An Experimental Meandering River
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Key Attributes
| Domain: | terrestrial, hydrology |
| Model name: | Animation model name |
| Name: | Wout, van Dijk |
| Where: | Laboratory |
| When: | hours |
Short Description
Grade level: Under graduate (13-16), Graduate / Professional
Statement: A meandering river created by a tank experiment
Abstract: This video shows the elevation of a river bed and surrounding surface, when as meandering 'river' migrates in a flume.
Done at the Eurotank at at Utrecht University. The meander was created by moving the water inlet to the tank.The tank used is 6 meters wide and 11 meters long.
The full experiment is described in Van Dijk et al., 2012.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011JF002314/abstract
Theory
Meandering rivers are ubiquitous in nature, but have been difficult to simulate in flumes.
The snake-like pattern found in meandering rivers occurs as meanders migrate as the outer bank of a river erodes sediment, and the inner curve of a river receives deposits of sediment.
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