COMPARISON OF BEDROCK AND ALLUVIAL MEANDERS USING 2D MODELLING

Abstract

Understanding the differences between characteristics of alluvial and bedrock meanders is the need of hour. In this paper we have performed some numerical calculations in order to, first make an effort to observe the change in migration of bedrock channel in response to change in sediment cover and sediment feed rate. After realizing how sediment availability effects bedrock meanders, we tried to compare characteristics of alluvial and bedrock meanders under similar hydraulic and physical conditions.