Ripple and dune formation in rivers

DOI10.1017/S0022112011000048zbMath1225.76130MaRDI QIDQ3097839

Marco Colombini, A. Stocchino

Publication date: 10 November 2011

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

zbMATH Keywords

instabilitysediment transportriver dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Subaqueous barchan dunes in turbulent shear flow. Part 2. Fluid flow ⋮ Three-dimensional river bed forms ⋮ Hydrodynamic roughness induced by a multiscale topography ⋮ On the scaling of the instability of a flat sediment bed with respect to ripple-like patterns ⋮ Ill posedness in modelling two-dimensional morphodynamic problems: effects of bed slope and secondary flow ⋮ Linear stability of shallow morphodynamic flows ⋮ Open-channel flow over evolving subaqueous ripples

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• On the formation of ripples on an erodible bed
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• Bedforms in a turbulent stream: formation of ripples by primary linear instability and of dunes by nonlinear pattern coarsening
• The formation of ripples and dunes on an erodible bed
• On the development of dunes in erodible channels
• Revisiting the linear theory of sand dune formation
• Finite-amplitude river dunes

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