IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions

Modeling the Direct Transition to Turbulence.- Dynamical Systems and the Transition to Turbulence.- Nonlinear Solutions of Simple Plane Shear Layers with and without a System Rotation.- Co-Supporting Cycle: Sustaining Mechanism of Large-Scale Structures and Near-Wall Structures in Channel Flow Turbulence.- Transition Threshold and the Self-Sustaining Process.- Turbulent-Laminar Patterns in Plane Couette Flow.- Subcritical Turbulent Transition in Rotating and Curved Shear Flows.- The Karhunen-Loève Decomposition of the Autonomous Minimal Flow Unit.- Coherent States in Transitional Pipe Flow.- Instability, Transition and Turbulence in Plane Couette Flow with System Rotation.- Transition to Versus from Turbulence in Subcritical Couette Flows.- Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow.- Threshold Amplitudes in Subcritical Shear Flows.- Non-Linear Optimal Perturbations in Subcritical Instabilities.- A Bypass Scenario of Laminarturbulent Transition in the Wind-Driven Free-Surface Boundary Layer.- Viscoelastic Nonlinear Traveling Waves and Drag Reduction in Plane Poiseuille Flow.- Subcritical Instabilities in Plane Couette Flow of Visco-Elastic Fluids.