Rinaldo, Andrea; Banavar, Jayanth R; Colizza, Vittoria; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 340 (2004) 4, pp. 749-755
Moving from the observation that drainage network configurations minimizing total energy dissipation are stationary solutions of the general equation describing landscape evolution, we review theoretical and observational evidence on river patterns and their scale-invariant structure. Exact...