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Published July 13, 2021 | Version Submitted
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Morphodynamic Modeling of River-Dominated Deltas: A Review and Future Perspectives

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  • 1. ROR icon Indiana University Bloomington
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 3. ROR icon Montclair State University
  • 4. ROR icon University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
  • 5. ROR icon University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Abstract

River deltas are a compelling target for numerical simulation because they contain seemingly organized patterns and shapes at a variety of scales. For instance, most river-dominated deltas, regardless of size, have triangular to semi-circular planform shapes, channel networks, and channel bifurcations. The common presence of these features among most deltas in the world (Caldwell et al., 2019; Nienhuis et al., 2020) suggests there are consistent underlying physical processes controlling delta form and behavior. In this review, we discuss how numerical modeling, and more specifically a type of modeling focused on the morphodynamic feedback, has helped explore some of these key physical processes over the last 15 years.

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License: Attribution 4.0 International. Published Online: Tue, 13 Jul 2021. All authors after DAE contributed equally to this work. DAE would like to acknowledge National Science Foundation grants 1911321, 1812019, and 1426997. JLT would like to acknowledge NSF grant 1854371 and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for support of this research (PRF #58817-DNI8). JBS acknowledges DOE grant DESC0016163. We thank Giovanni Coco for useful edits on an earlier draft.

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109972
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NSF
EAR-1911321
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EAR-1812019
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EAR-1426997
NSF
EAR-1854371
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
58817-DNI8
Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-SC0016163

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2021-07-26
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2023-02-15
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