A simulation of how rivers evolve over time — channels meander, cut off, and reconnect through erosion and sediment transport. The model captures qualitative behavior over physical accuracy. The same dynamics — channel migration, floodplain reshaping, habitat continuity — apply directly to site analysis and ecological design.
A simulation of how rivers evolve over time. Channels meander, cut off into oxbow lakes, and reconnect through cycles of erosion on the outer bank and sediment deposition on the inner. The model targets qualitative behavior — the shape language of a floodplain over decades — rather than physical accuracy in any single timestep.
The motivation is ecological design. The same dynamics — channel migration, floodplain reshaping, the continuity of riparian habitat — directly inform how a site reads at different scales of time. Treating the landscape as a slow simulation rather than a fixed plan is the broader thread this study sits on.
Write-up and captures will land here as the solver stabilises.