Laminar-Turbulent Transition

Session 1 Chairman: R. Eppler.- Stability and Transition: Some Comments on the Problems.- On Wave Packets in Laminar Boundary Layers.- Further Observations on Transition in a Pipe.- Laminar Turbulent Transition in Pipe Flow: Development and Structure of the Turbulent Slug.- Session 2 Chairman: K. Stewartson.- An Experimental Investigation of the Secondary Instability.- Dialogue on Bridging Some Gaps in Stability and Transition Research.- Flow Field and Energy Balance According to the Spatial Linear Stability Theory of the Blasius Boundary Layer.- Linear Stability Theory for Wave-Packet Disturbances in Parallel and Nearly Parallel Flows.- Local Criteria of Hydrodynamic Stability.- Session 3 Chairman: P.S. Klebanoff.- The Transition Mechanism of an Oscillating Boundary Layer.- Longitudinal Vortices in a Transitioning Boundary Layer.- Experimental Study of Boundary Layer Waves at Large Amplitudes.- Experiments on the Stability of Nonlinear Waves in a Boundary Layer.- Experiments on Nonlinear Interaction of Waves in Boundary Layer.- Session 4 Chairman: M. Landahl.- Numerical Studies of Transition in Planar Shear Flows.- On the Non-Linear Evolution of Critical Layers.- Investigation of Nonlinear, Spatial Disturbance Amplification in Plane Poiseuille Flow.- Stability of the Laminar Boundary Layer on a Blunted Plate in Supersonic Flow.- Session 5 Chairman: J.T. Stuart.- Three-Dimensional Stability of Growing Boundary Layers.- Boundary-Layer Transition: Theory and Experiment.- On the Stabilization of Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers by Suction and Cooling.- Three-Dimensional Waves in a Boundary Layer.- On the Prediction of Transition in Three-Dimensional Flows.- Three-Dimensional Boundary Layer Transition via the Mechanisms of "Attachment Line Contamination" and "CrossFlow Instability".- Session 6 Chairman: M.A.S. Ross.- Some Thoughts on Boundary-Layer Transition.- Interactions for Regular Patterns of Turbulent Spots in a Laminar Boundary Layer.- Visualization of Turbulent Spots in the Boundary Layer along a Flat Plate in a Water Flow.- A Visual Study of the Growth and Entrainment of Turbulent Spots.- Temperature Tagging Measurements of Turbulent Spots in a Heated Laminar Boundary Layer.- Session 7 Chairman: W.S. King.- Leading Edge Effect in Laminar Boundary Layer Excitation by Sound.- The Generation of a Tollmien-Schlichting Wave by a Sound Wave.- Delay of Turbulent Transition by Surface Heating in Water.- Observations of Transition on some Axisymmetric Bodies.- Session 8 Chairman: J. Zierep.- Successive Bifurcation and Turbulence.- Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Taylor-Couette Flow.- Laminar-Turbulent Transition in a Circular Couette Flow.- Sudden Transition to Turbulence.- Transition from Laminar to Turbulent Taylor Vortex Flow.- On Bifurcation of Stable Periodic Flows in an Ekman Layer and in a Convection Boundary Layer.- Session 9: Chairman: W. Criminale.- Taylor Vortices in Spherical Gaps.- Laminar-Turbulent Transition in a Spherical Annulus.