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effective particle fall speed in these flows. The results<br />

relating to particles falling into or gathered up by the vortex<br />

flow are then used to infer likely interactions occurring in<br />

sediment transport from sandwave crests. More specifically, we<br />

identify a criterion which defines the limiting fall speed for<br />

which a particle can be captured by the vortex.<br />

2 COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURE<br />

The particle equation proposed by Auton (1984) incorporated<br />

individual contributions to the body force F from pressure<br />

gradient (P) , acceleration (I) , vorticity-lif t (L) and drag (D) ,<br />

for which the resulting equation (see appendix 9) <strong>of</strong> particle<br />

motion can be written<br />

dt cvt cm f» L<br />

where v is the particle velocity, u the liquid velocity, u.Vu the<br />

(steady) flow acceleration, VT the terminal fall speed (quiescent<br />

liquid) , w=v-u the slip speed, w the vorticity vector, p p/L the<br />

particle/liquid density, Ap=p p -p L , g gravitational acceleration<br />

and t time. Also, the coefficients <strong>of</strong> virtual mass and lift are<br />

assigned their asymptotic quasi-steady values: 0^=0.5, C L=0.5.<br />

The equation for the fluid field is described in appendix 9.<br />

We solved this equation numerically for the prescribed vortex<br />

flow to obtain the acceleration <strong>of</strong> a particle at discretised time<br />

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