Cutbank is a numerical model for a meandering river that interacts with heterogeneous bank materials. See the included manual for detailed information and a quick-start guide with example applications. The code has been tested on 64-bit operating systems on PC, and should be useable on Mac with light modifications. If you use or adapt this model for work that results in a publication, please acknowledge Cutbank in the text and cite one or more of the following papers, as appropriate:

Limaye, A. B. S., & Lamb, M. P. (2013). A vector-based method for bank-material tracking in coupled models of meandering and landscape evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 118(4), 2421–2437. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JF002854

Limaye, A. B. S., & Lamb, M. P. (2014). Numerical simulations of bedrock valley evolution by meandering rivers with variable bank material. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 119(4), 927–950. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JF002997

Limaye, A. B. S., & Lamb, M. P. (2016). Numerical model predictions of autogenic fluvial terraces and comparison to climate change expectations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121(3), 512–544. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003392

Torres, M. A., Limaye, A. B., Ganti, V., Lamb, M. P., West, A. J., & Fischer, W. W. (2017). Model predictions of long-lived storage of organic carbon in river deposits. Earth Surface Dynamics, 5(4), 711–730. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-711-2017

Li, Y., and Limaye, A. B. (2024), Timescale of the morphodynamic feedback between planform geometry and lateral migration of meandering rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 129(2), https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007413.