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<strong>of</strong> the vorticity shed into the near wake flows. Again, the<br />

emphasis in <strong>Birmingham</strong> will be complemented by the work at<br />

Wallingford where large-scale flumes are available for evaluating<br />

the fundamental modelling in situations which, though realistic,<br />

are still accessible to detailed interpretations and comparisons<br />

with the theoretical modelling.<br />

Thirdly, on the numerical side, we shall evaluate the<br />

implications <strong>of</strong> our computational modelling for the effective<br />

transport coefficients employed in engineering codes for shearturbulent<br />

bed flows: eg the eddy diffusivities <strong>of</strong> current closure<br />

schemes based on the k-e equations. Of special interest here<br />

will be to view the results in the light <strong>of</strong> recent field<br />

measurements <strong>of</strong> suspended sand transport over sandwaves made by<br />

MEHR (Soulsby, 1989) and, in particular to sensibly accommodate<br />

the inertially enhanced capture <strong>of</strong> particles by concentrated<br />

vorticity. In comparison with conventional theory, anomalous<br />

results have been reported regarding the distributions <strong>of</strong> fluid<br />

shear and particle concentrations over the bedform. Comparable<br />

anomalies have been found in the modelling <strong>of</strong> bubble transport<br />

by flows with concentrated vorticity and we are confident that<br />

realistic phenomenology can be incorporated in Reynolds averaged<br />

transport modelling <strong>of</strong> the particle fluxes.<br />

TRAINING<br />

The project will be conducted within securely established<br />

environments for flow transport dynamics research, both in the<br />

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