The Dynamics of a Meandering River

Preprint

20 August 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9608080

Abstract

We present a statistical model of a meandering river on an alluvial plane which is motivated by the physical non-linear dynamics of the river channel migration and by describing heterogeneity of the terrain by noise. We study the dynamics analytically and numerically. The motion of the river channel is unstable and we show that by inclusion of the formation of ox-bow lakes, the system may be stabilised. We then calculate the steady state and show that it is in agreement with simulations and measurements of field data.

Keywords

DESCRIBING HETEROGENEITY
DYNAMICS ANALYTICALLY
STATISTICAL MODEL
MEANDERING RIVER
RIVER CHANNEL
MIGRATION
MOTIVATED
BOW LAKES

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Version 1, 1996-08-20, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 75 (16), 3016.

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