Decoupled morphodynamic responses of dune crests and localized scour across the sand-gravel transition in straight alluvial channels

Mustafa Tunc

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0339732

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Decoupled morphodynamic responses of dune crests and localized scour across the sand-gravel transition in straight alluvial channels

Mustafa Tunc

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mtunc@firat.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Firat, Elazig, Turkey

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9756-8409

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Decoupled morphodynamic responses of dune crests and localized scour across the sand-gravel transition in straight alluvial channels

Mustafa Tunc

Published: September 2, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0339732

About the Authors

Mustafa Tunc

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mtunc@firat.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Firat, Elazig, Turkey

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9756-8409

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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