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The fascination of a shallow-water theory for the formation of megaflood-scale dunes and antidunes

dc.contributor.authorBohórquez, Patricio
dc.contributor.authorCañada-Pereira, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorJiménez-Ruiz, Pedro Jeús
dc.contributor.authordel-Moral-Erencia, José David
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-21T07:33:08Z
dc.date.available2023-11-21T07:33:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-12
dc.descriptionT1 Q1 (2/200 Multidisciplinary Geoscience, IF 2019 = 9.7)es_ES
dc.description.abstractExceptional megaflood-scale bedforms on Earth are commonly associated with the catastrophic draining of glacial lakes in the late Pleistocene. The widest studied events have been the Missoula and Altai floods with 300–700 m flow depth, 1–20 m bedform height and 10–300 m wavelength. Nowadays, the Saint-Venant equations have succeeded at simulating the catastrophic glacial-lake drainage process numerically, but we still lack a depth-averaged morphodynamic theory able to predict the growth of dunes and antidunes. The disparity of spatial scales in megafloods prevents the use of non-depth-averaged rotational flow equations, motivating the present shallow-water theory for the formation of megaflood-scale bedforms. We adopt a non-equilibrium sediment transport equation rooted in Einstein's pioneering work. Here we prove that the bed instability triggers to form dunes and antidunes simply by lagging the entrainment term for sediment mass conservation, or the bottom shear stress, with respect to the depth-averaged flow velocity. We formalise this result using a linear stability theory that captures the existence regions of dune and antidune in addition to the roll wave instability. Furthermore, in the spirit of Kennedy (Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., vol. 1, 1969, pp. 147–168), we derive a closed-form solution of growth rate and wave speed of the bedform. The nondimensional groups controlling the linear instabilities are the Froude number, ℱr, the Shields parameter, Sh, and the grain roughness relative to flow depth, Subsequently, we simulate the drainage of the largest Missoula flood numerically to explain the formation of giant antidunes in the Camas Prairie (Montana, US) during the late stage of the megaflood. Also considered are large fields of gravel dunes in the Kuray-Chuja Lake Basin (Altai Mountains, Siberia). The simulated hydraulic conditions over bedforms in both basins yield values of the nondimensional parameters that lie in the theoretical region of dunes and antidunes according to the proposed theory and in situ measurements in sandy rivers and flume experiments.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICINN/FEDER, UE) under Grant SEDRETO CGL2015-70736-R. P.C.P. and P.R.J. were supported by the European Social Fund and the University of Jaén. J.D.d.M.E. was supported by the PhD scholarship BES-2016-079117 (MICINN/FSE, UE) from the Spanish National Programme for the Promotion of Talent and its Employability (call 2016).es_ES
dc.identifier.citationBohorquez P., Cañada-Pereira P., Jimenez-Ruiz P.J., del Moral-Erencia J.D. The fascination of a shallow-water theory for the formation of megaflood-scale dunes and antidunes. Earth-Science Reviews, 193: 91–108, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.03.021es_ES
dc.identifier.issn1872-6828es_ES
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.03.021es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.03.021es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10953/1341
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherElsevieres_ES
dc.relation.ispartofEarth-Science Reviews 2019; 193: 91-108es_ES
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subjectLinear stability theoryes_ES
dc.subjectSediment transportes_ES
dc.subjectMissoula and Altai Quaternary floodes_ES
dc.subjectDune and antidunees_ES
dc.titleThe fascination of a shallow-water theory for the formation of megaflood-scale dunes and antiduneses_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersiones_ES

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