A review of applications of fractional calculus in Earth system dynamics

Y Zhang, HG Sun, HH Stowell, M Zayernouri… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fractional calculus has been used to model various hydrologic processes for 15 years. Yet,
there are still major gaps between real-world hydrologic dynamics and fractional-order …

Experimental evidence of statistical ensemble behavior in bed load sediment transport

SL Fathel, DJ Furbish… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A high‐resolution data set obtained from high‐speed imaging of coarse sand particles
transported as bed load allows us to confidently describe the forms and qualities of the …

Stochastic interpretation of the advection‐diffusion equation and its relevance to bed load transport

C Ancey, P Bohorquez… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The advection‐diffusion equation is one of the most widespread equations in physics. It
arises quite often in the context of sediment transport, eg, for describing time and space …

Entrainment, motion, and deposition of coarse particles transported by water over a sloping mobile bed

J Heyman, P Bohorquez… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In gravel bed rivers, bed load transport exhibits considerable variability in time and space.
Recently, stochastic bed load transport theories have been developed to address the …

Particle motion on burned and vegetated hillslopes

DL Roth, TH Doane, JJ Roering… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is causing increasingly widespread, frequent, and intense wildfires across
the western United States. Many geomorphic effects of wildfire are relatively well studied, yet …

A statistical description of particle motion and rest regimes in open‐channel flows under low bedload transport

MX Liu, A Pelosi, M Guala - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade several efforts were devoted to model sediment‐particle transport in rivers
as a stochastic process. Experimental observations are therefore needed to validate these …

Quantifying nonlocal bedload transport: A regional-based nonlocal model for bedload transport from local to global scales

ZP Li, S Yuan, H Tang, Y Zhu, HG Sun - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent studies have emphasized the importance of nonlocal models in characterizing
bedload transport in natural rivers, particularly in mixed-size gravel beds or steep hillslopes …

Exploring a semimechanistic episodic Langevin model for bed load transport: Emergence of normal and anomalous advection and diffusion regimes

N Fan, A Singh, M Guala… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bed load transport is a highly stochastic, multiscale process, where particle advection and
diffusion regimes are governed by the dynamics of each sediment grain during its motion …

The elements and richness of particle diffusion during sediment transport at small timescales

DJ Furbish, SL Fathel, MW Schmeeckle… - Earth Surface …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The ideas of advection and diffusion of sediment particles are probabilistic constructs that
emerge when the Master equation, a precise, probabilistic description of particle …

Dynamics of Dual‐Mode Bedload Transport With Three‐Dimensional Alternate Bars Migration in Subcritical Flow: Experiments and Model Analysis

ZP Li, M Kiani Oshtorjani, D Chen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bedload transport often exhibits dual‐mode behavior due to interactions of spatiotemporal
controlling factors with the migrating three‐dimensional bedforms (characterized by the fully …