Steady and Unsteady Characteristics of Two Corner Separations in a Decelerating Square Channel Flow

The three-dimensional separation in a decelerating channel flow generated by the suction through a porous side wall had been investigated experimentally. Unsteady characteristics of two corner separations were especially focused on. The profiles of time averaged static pressure are two-dimensional in the height direction even in the case with large regions of corner separation. The contour of the turbulence level of the mainstream velocity shows two peak values which correspond to two corner separations. The value of cross-correlation gets large negative values without any lag and the value of coherence gets peak value at around 0.5–2 Hz. The corner separations near the top wall and near the bottom wall are not independent and keep coherent structure both with negative value of cross correlation function and with the frequency of around 0.5–2 Hz.