Meander initiation and braiding in a small river model

[shaun365]

Is this analagous to what happens in submarine canyon/fan complexes?

[TheSteezyCheese]

WHY DOES IT MEANDER WHY DOESNT IT JUST STAY a straight channel ????

is it from gravity? earth rotations ?

[timlyo]

@TheSteezyCheese the flow of the water is disrupted by a non uniform flow of water, this causes it to move towards one side which increases the erosion, so it continues to meander

[MrGoodfight]

nerds

[sherynnegps]

Wow. Interesting! Bt how is braided river formed?

[rabidtarg]

@sherynnegps Braided rivers have been difficult to model for a very long time. Berkley managed to do it after years of research and creating more cohesive banks with plants. I've been working on this, too, using fine sand and a mud layer to simulate a floodplain along with a depositional basin for sediment to travel to. This has given me the best meander results, but I'm still working on it.

[parkourdude100]

great video showing stochastic formation of the meanders. Loved the dyes too, created some interesting pulses of colour