The fluid dynamics of river dunes: A review and some future research directions

J Best - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Dunes are present in nearly all fluvial channels and are vital in predicting flow resistance,
sediment transport, and deposition within many rivers. Progress in understanding the fluid …

Predicting bedforms and primary current stratification in cohesive mixtures of mud and sand

JH Baas, JL Best, J Peakall - Journal of the Geological Society, 2016 - lyellcollection.org
The use of sedimentary structures as indicators of flow and sediment morphodynamics in
ancient sediments lies at the very heart of sedimentology, and allows reconstruction of …

[图书][B] Rivers and floodplains: forms, processes, and sedimentary record

JS Bridge - 2003 - books.google.com
Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment
transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial rivers and floodplains …

Grain-size distribution function of polymodal sediments in hydraulic and aeolian environments, and numerical partitioning of the sedimentary components

D Sun, J Bloemendal, DK Rea, J Vandenberghe… - Sedimentary …, 2002 - Elsevier
Most continental sediments are polymodal, composed of overlapping components of which
the grain size generally obeys some type of natural distribution. The grain-size components …

Dunes in the world's big rivers are characterized by low-angle lee-side slopes and a complex shape

J Cisneros, J Best, T van Dijk, RP Almeida… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dunes form critical agents of bedload transport in all of the world's big rivers, and constitute
appreciable sources of bed roughness and flow resistance. Dunes also generate …

Large-eddy simulation in hydraulics

W Rodi, G Constantinescu, T Stoesser - 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Numerical computation methods are used more and more as tools for solving hydraulic and
environmental engineering problems, and as turbulence mostly plays an important role in …

Dynamics of secondary airflow and sediment transport over and in the lee of transverse dunes

IJ Walker, WG Nickling - Progress in Physical Geography, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research literature on secondary airflow and sediment transport patterns over flow-
transverse dunes is reviewed. Various issues surrounding the behaviour, modelling and …

Morphology and flow fields of three‐dimensional dunes, Rio Paraná, Argentina: Results from simultaneous multibeam echo sounding and acoustic Doppler current …

DR Parsons, JL Best, O Orfeo, RJ Hardy… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Most past studies of river dune dynamics have concentrated on two‐dimensional (2‐D) bed
forms, with constant heights and straight crest lines transverse to the flow, and their …

Scale-dependent perspectives on the geomorphology and evolution of beach-dune systems

IJ Walker, RGD Davidson-Arnott, BO Bauer… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite widespread recognition that landforms are complex Earth systems with process-
response linkages that span temporal scales from seconds to millennia and spatial scales …

[图书][B] River processes: an introduction to fluvial dynamics

A Robert - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
River Processes deals primarily with flow and sediment dynamics in alluvial channels. It
emphasises water flows (basic principles and characterisation), fluvial sediment, processes …