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Chapter 1<br />

(a) TYPICAL RIPPLE PATTERN (el PLANE BED<br />

BOIL<br />

(b) DUNES WITH RIPPLES SUPERPOSED If) STANDING WAVES<br />

,. BOIL BOIL<br />

INCIPIENT BREAKING<br />

AND MOVING UPSTREAM<br />

Ic) DUNES (g) ANTIDUNES<br />

BREAKING ANTIDUNE WAVE<br />

Id) WASHED-OUT DUNES OR TRANSITION (hi ANTIDUNES<br />

Figure 1. Engelund & Fredsoe (1982). Typical bedforms found in<br />

unidirectional flows. Notice the transition from ripples through<br />

dunes to wash-out and antidunes with increasing stream power.<br />

u REF<br />

SHEAR LAYER<br />

./<br />

TIME AVERAGED<br />

DIVIDING<br />

STREAMLINE<br />

1. \.l<br />

RECIRCULATION REATTACHMENT<br />

Figure 2. Simpson (1989). Schematic <strong>of</strong> the flow over a backward<br />

facing step showing the shear layer, recirculation zone,<br />

reattachment zone and the time averaged separation streamline.

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