Secondary current and river-meander formation

DOI10.1017/S0022112084001580zbMath0559.76044MaRDI QIDQ5184550

J. F. Kennedy, Peter K. Kitanidis

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

meanderssecondary currentinitially straight prismatic channelsmall sinusoidal perturbationuniform quasi-steady flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• On the cause and characteristic scales of meandering and braiding in rivers
• On the origin of meandering and braiding in alluvial streams

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