February 2022 – Wood Engineering

what causes a stream to meander?

By WoodEngineering Posted on February 28, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with bank, braided, channel, control, creek, delta, discharge, flat, flow, grade, gradient, gravel, hydraulic, Lane, meander, meandering, ocean, oxbow, river, sediment, slope, steep, stream, thalweg, transport, valley, water

What Causes a Stream or River to `Meander’? (First) Hydraulic Equilibrium. Let’s think about a river that flows into the ocean. But the same could be said for a river entering a lake, or some other feature that `fixes’ the …

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on sediment transport – Lane – I love it!

By WoodEngineering Posted on February 28, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with bank, boulder, braided, clear, cloudy, cobble, control, creek, delta, discharge, fall, flow, gravel, Lane, ocean, rate, ripe, ripening, river, rock, runoff, sand, sediment, silt, slow, snow, snowmelt, Spring, steep, stream, summer, thalweg

On Sediment Transport – Lane – `I love it!’ Lane (citation) gave us a fantastic, and fantastically simple, `equation’ (relationship) for sediment transport in a river. It goes something like this: river flow (quantity, Q) and stream slope (or steepness, …

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Month: February 2022

what causes a stream to meander?

on sediment transport – Lane – I love it!