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Bed forms in alluvial channels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

A. J. Raudkivi
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Auckland, N.Z.

Abstract

A solution is offered for the relative phase relationship of bed, depth and surface waves observed in alluvial channels, and is found to be in good agreement with observation in laboratory flumes. The solution does not depend on an assumption of a phase lag between the velocity and sediment movement. The emphasis of the paper is on the mechanics of bed-wave formation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1966 Cambridge University Press

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