The Quasi-Equilibrium Longitudinal Profile in Backwater Reaches of the Engineered Alluvial River: A Space-Marching Method

An engineered alluvial river (i.e., a fixed-width channel) has constrained planform but is free to adjust channel slope and bed surface texture. These features are subject to controls: the hydrograph, sediment flux, and downstream base level. If the controls are sustained (or change slowly relative to the timescale of channel response), the...

A Well-Posed Alternative to the Hirano Active Layer Model for Rivers With Mixed-Size Sediment

The active layer model (Hirano, 1971) is frequently used for modeling mixed-size sediment river morphodynamic processes. It assumes that all the dynamics of the bed surface are captured by a homogeneous top layer that interacts with the flow. Although successful in reproducing a wide range of phenomena, it has two problems: (1) It may become...

The equilibrium alluvial river under variable flow and its channel-forming discharge