Flowing study

Meandering water
channels always
follow a gently
winding path. Why
this happens has
been explained
with the help of a
model developed
by physicists
Taniemola Liverpool
and Sam Edwards,
University of
Cambridge, US. The
two main components of the model
include 'pinching of a
part of the flow to
form an ox-bow lake
which allows
the river to resume
its normal path
in the channel and
the terrain
through which the
river flows. Oil
reserves can also be
located by
studying the
meanders (New
Scientis4 Vol 148,
No 2007).