Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar

Water headward erosion is a phenomenon responsible for extending the river valleyinto the hillside and hence creating a ramified drainage networks. Interestingly, thisprocess can be modeled in terms of the geodesic growth of thin lines in a Poissonian field.During seminar I'm going to present results of my bachelor thesis focusing on numericalanalysis of the river network evolution for different growth laws and different bifurcationrules, which determine the moments when the stream bifurcates into two daughterbranches. Investigation includes inverse problem formulated as: can the growth law of ariver be inferred from the analysis of the geometrical structure of its network?