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flow just separated from the convex surface. Bradbury found that<br />

vorticity-induced entrainment <strong>of</strong> the confined fluid caused jet<br />

deflection towards the flap for all angles less than some<br />

unspecified critical value. For larger angles, there was a<br />

different stable pattern in which the jet detached from the<br />

convex surface and the confined recirculating flow was directed<br />

everywhere upstream towards the convex surface.<br />

Kiya & Sasaki (1983) studied the separation bubble on the front<br />

edge <strong>of</strong> a thick rectangular plate. They found that large<br />

vortices were shed at a mean frequency <strong>of</strong> 0.6U/L where U here is<br />

the free stream velocity and L is the time-mean bubble separation<br />

length. These vortices appeared in the free shear layer<br />

separating from the salient leading edge and grew by entrainment<br />

until restricted by the proximity <strong>of</strong> the plate. A second<br />

oscillation was superimposed at a lower frequency <strong>of</strong> 0.2U/L,<br />

associated with large scale flapping <strong>of</strong> the shear layer during<br />

partial shedding <strong>of</strong> the separation bubble. Kiya & Sasaki do not<br />

give a detailed interpretation <strong>of</strong> this second phenomenon but we<br />

believe that boundary restriction <strong>of</strong> the entrainment flows played<br />

an important role.<br />

Soulsby & Bettess (1991) found the time averaged flow velocity<br />

over the trough <strong>of</strong> estuarine sandwaves showed no mean flow<br />

reversal at any height above the trough, which they explained as<br />

lack <strong>of</strong> permanent separation at the crest. Further measurements<br />

<strong>of</strong> the fluctuating velocity at 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.8m above the<br />

trough (where the crest height was about 0.8m) showed negative<br />

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