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Communications on Hydraulic and Geotechnical Engineering 2004-05 ISSN 0169-6548 The B009 data in the backward facing step experiment —————— Report on the Data Analysis and evaluation——————— Nguyen Thanh Hoan* November 15, 2004 *PhD Student, Section of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA DELFT, The Netherlands. Tel. + 31 15 27 84736; Fax: +31 15 27 89453Email: hoan@ Contents Table of contents i Abstract iii 1 Problem description 1 1.1 General introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Work definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.4 Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Physical concepts of stability 3 2.1 Quasi-steady drag and lift forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Turbulence wall pressures (TWPs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Force-generating mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 Experimental set-up 8 3.1 Introduction . . . .