IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions

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.