Title
Cutoff processes and their importance for bed and planform morphodynamic adaptation
Date Issued
2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Pittsburgh
Publisher(s)
CRC Press/Balkema
Abstract
The majority of current meandering river models treat the cutoff process as a geometric scheme: when the threshold distance between external banks of two bends are getting close enough, the model leaves behind over-matured bends and joins the two channels, then the oxbow lake is produced instantaneously. This does not describe the realistic scenarios. Combining the hydrodynamic model (TELEMAC-2D), morphodynamic model (SISYPHE), and channel migration submodel (MEANDRE), we constructed an integrated numerical model to simulate meander neck cutoffs and their accompanying natural evolutions in bedload dominated rivers. This model is capable to simulate not only in the plane geometry change aspect, but also the real day-to-day channel migration and cutoff events. This model successfully reproduced the laboratory experiment of self-formed cutoff performed by Han and Endreny. It is also effective for a series of test cases including Kinoshita-curve idealized channel cases. Future applications are extended to real world scale simulations.
Start page
1748
End page
1754
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85015321658
ISBN
9781138029132
Resource of which it is part
River Flow - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, RIVER FLOW 2016
ISBN of the container
978-113802913-2
Sponsor(s)
This study was carried out thanks to the initiative of CREAR (Center for Research and Education of the Amazonian Rainforest). Dr. Abad also recognizes the financial support from the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). We also thank to supercomputing resources provided by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Simulation and Modeling (SAM).
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