IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions (eBook)

Preface;
Modeling the Direct Transition to Turbulence, by Paul Manneville;
Dynamical Systems and the Transition to Turbulence, by Bruno Eckhardt and Holger Faisst;
Nonlinear Solutions of Simple Plane Shear Layers with and without a System Rotation, by M. Nagata, G. Kawahara, T. Itano, D.P. Wall, T Mitsumoji and R. Nakamura;
Co-Supporting Cycle: Sustaining Mechanism of Large-Scale Structures and Near-Wall Structures in Channel Flow Turbulence, by Sadayoshi Toh, Tomoaki Itano and Kai Satoh;
Transition Threshold and the Self-Sustaining Process, by Fabian Waleffe and Jue Wang;
Turbulent-Laminar Patterns in Plane Couette Flow, by Dwight Barkley and Laurette S. Tuckerman;
Subcritical Turbulent Transition in Rotating and Curved Shear Flows, by Pierre-Yves Longaretti and Olivier Dauchot;
The Karhunen—Loève Decomposition of the Autonomous Minimal Flow Unit, by D. Desmidts and D. Carati;
Coherent States in Transitional Pipe Flow, by Maria Isabella Gavarini, Alessandro Bottaro and Frans T.M. Nieuwstadt;
Instability, Transition and Turbulence in Plane Couette Flow with System Rotation, by P. Henrik Alfredsson and Nils Tilimark;
Transition to Versusfrom Turbulence in Subcritical Couette Flows, by A. Prigent and O. Dauchot;
Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow, by B. Hof;
Threshold Amplitudes in Subcritical Shear Flows, by Dan S. Henningson and Gunilla Kreiss;
Non-Linear Optimal Perturbations in Subcritical Instabilities, by Carlo Cossu;
A Bypass Scenario of Laminar-Turbulent Transition in the Wind-Driven Free-Surface Boundary Layer, by Victor I. Shrira, Guillemette Caulliez and Dmitry V. Ivonin;
Viscoelastic Nonlinear Traveling Waves and Drag Reduction in Plane Poiseuille Flow, by Wei Li, Philip A. Stone and Michael D. Graham;
Subcritical Instabilities in Plane Couette Flow of Visco-Elastic Fluids, by Alexander N. Morozov and Wim van Saarloos;
Subject Index.