Author(s)

M. R. M. Tabatabai

Abstract

Application of unit stream power theory to stable meandering and braided reaches of Sefidroud River M. R. M. Tabatabai Water Engineering Department, Power and Water Institute of Technology, Iran. Abstract It is important to understand how channel geometry relates to discharge, and to be able to predict how the channel will adjust for a given discharge. This is significant both in a theoretical way, especially in relating channel geometry to given discharges in semi-arid and arid areas, and also in apractical way, for instance in river training and for a variety of instream and external uses. This needs to be able to predict channel geometry led to the development of the concept of regime, which was initially developed with respect to irrigation canals. This concept has since been applied to natural rivers, with the idea of "dominant discharge" being used to represent what discharge the channel is in regime for. Empirical regime equations for stable gravel-bed Sefidroud River were obtained bas

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