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Two kinds of bank erosion mechanisms were analyzed, including fluvial and non-fluvial controlled mechanisms, and mechanical methods of simulating the erosion processes of cohesive, non-cohesive and composite riverbanks were improved. Then a two-dimensional numerical model of the channel deformation was developed, consisting of a 2D flow and sediment transport submodel and bank-erosion submodels of different soil riverbanks. In the model, a new technique for up dating the bank geometry during the bed evolution was presented, which combines closely two kinds of submodels. The proposed model is capable of not only predicting the processes of flood routing and longitudinal channel deformation in natural rivers, but also simulating the processes of lateral channel deformation, especially the processes of lateral erosion and failure of cohesive, non-cohesive and composite river banks.
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Xia, J., Wang, G. & Wu, B. Two-dimensional numerical modeling of the longitudinal and lateral channel deformations in alluvial rivers. Sci. China Ser. E-Technol. Sci. 47 (Suppl 1), 199–211 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1360/04ez0017
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