ABSTRACT
The morphodynamic system in alluvial, coastal plain estuaries is complex and characterized by various time scales and spatial scales. The current chapter aims to investigate the interaction between these different scales as well as the estuarine morphodynamic evolution. Use is made of a process-based, numerical model describing 2D shallow water equations and a straightforward formulation of the sediment transport and the bed level update. This was done for an embayment with a length of 80 km on a time scale of 3200 years, with and without bank erosion effects. Special emphasis is put on analyzing the results in terms of energy dissipation.
