Laminar-Turbulent Transition: IUTAM Symposium Toulouse/France September 11–15, 1989

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Dialogue on Progress and Issues in Stability and Transition Research....Pages 3-29
Experimental Investigation of Tollmien Schlichting Instability and Transition in Similar Boundary Layer Flow in an Adverse Pressure Gradient....Pages 31-42
On the Development of Turbulent Spots in Plane Poiseuille Flow....Pages 43-52
Transition Flight Experiments on a Swept Wing with Suction....Pages 53-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Secondary and Cascade Resonant Instabilities of Boundary Layers. Wave-Resonant Concept of a Breakdown and its Substantiation....Pages 65-80
Nonlinear Breakdowns in Boundary Layer Transition....Pages 81-91
Threshold Conditions for Breakdown of Laminar Boundary Layers....Pages 93-101
Propagation of Wave Packets in the Boundary Layer on a Curved Surface....Pages 103-111
Boundary Layer Control by a Local Heating of the Wall....Pages 113-121
Effects of Boundary-Layer Growth on the Linear Regime of Transition over Compliant Walls....Pages 123-128
Investigations on Flow Instabilities on Airfoils by Means of Piezofoil-Arrays....Pages 129-135
On the Spatial Structure of Disturbances in Boundary Layer Subharmonic Transition....Pages 137-142
Three-Dimensional Effects in Boundary-Layer Transition: A High Reynolds Number Weakly-Nonlinear Theory....Pages 143-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Effect of Controlled Resonant Interactions and Mode Detuning on Turbulent Transition in Boundary Layers....Pages 151-178
Role of Transients in Boundary Layer Instability and Transition....Pages 179-187
The Evolution of a Localized Disturbance in a Laminar Boundary Layer....Pages 189-198
On the Breakdown of a Wave Packet Disturbance in a Laminar Boundary Layer....Pages 199-214
Development of Wall Turbulence in Blasius Flow....Pages 215-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Transition Research in Low-Disturbance High-Speed Wind Tunnels....Pages 227-238
Experimental Study of the Supersonic Boundary Layer Stability on the Cone-Cylinder Model....Pages 239-249
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Stability Theory for Chemically Reacting Flows....Pages 251-260
On the Instability of Hypersonic Flow Past a Wedge....Pages 261-270
On the Subharmonic Instability of Compressible Boundary Layers....Pages 271-278
On the Evolution of Localized Disturbances in Laminar Shear Flows....Pages 279-284
On the Wave Packets Interaction in a Transitional Boundary Layer....Pages 285-290
Stability of the Laminar Boundary Layer for an Imperfect Gas....Pages 291-301
Numerical Simulation of Spatially Growing Three-Dimensional Disturbance Waves in Compressible Boundary Layers....Pages 303-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Natural Transition on “Infinite” Swept Wing....Pages 311-325
An Evaluation of Stability-Based Methods for Transition of Three-Dimensional Flows....Pages 327-336
Correlation of Boundary Layer Stability Analysis with Flight Transition Data....Pages 337-346
Stability of High-Speed Chemically Reacting and Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers....Pages 347-357
Cross-Flow Instability of 3-D Boundary Layers on a Flat Plate....Pages 359-368
Experiments on Swept-Wing Boundary Layers....Pages 369-380
On the Stability of Swept Wing Laminar Boundary Layers Including Curvature Effects....Pages 381-388
An Investigation of the Non-Linear Instability of Flow near a Swept Attachment-Line....Pages 389-394
Time-Dependent Instabilities of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection in Boxes....Pages 395-400
Blunt-Nosed Swept Supercritical LFC Wings Without Nose Flaps....Pages 401-415
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Instability Features Appearing on Swept Wing Configurations....Pages 419-430
Development and Interaction of Instabilities in the Crossflow Field....Pages 431-440
Secondary Instabilities of Three-Dimensional Inflectional Velocity Profiles Resulting from Longitudinal Vorticity Elements in Boundary Layers....Pages 441-451
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
On the Görtler Vortex Instability Mechanism at Hypersonic Speeds....Pages 453-463
Visual Study of Boundary Layer Transition on Rotating Flat Plate....Pages 465-474
Front Matter....Pages 475-475
Generation of Boundary Layer Instability Waves by Acoustic and Vortical Free-Stream Disturbances....Pages 477-488
Experimental Study of the Travelling Waves in a Three-Dimensional Boundary Layer....Pages 489-498
The Experimental Investigation of Stability and Receptivity of a Swept-Wing Flow....Pages 499-509
Receptivity and Stability of the Boundary Layer at a High Turbulence Level....Pages 511-521
Hydrodynamic Instability and Receptivity of Small Scale Separation Regions....Pages 523-531
Hypersonic Transitional Flow in a Compression Corner in 2D Configuration....Pages 533-543
Classification of Laminar-Turbulent Transition near Rotating Bodies....Pages 545-550
Spiral Vortex Behavior in Transition Region and Separation of Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers on Spheres Rotating in Axial Flow....Pages 551-557
Wavy Vortices in Rotating Channel Flow....Pages 559-564
Theoretical Study of Görtler Vortices: Linear Stability Approach....Pages 565-572
Laminar Boundary Layers in Turbulent Flows....Pages 573-578
Certain Aspects of Flows over Rough Leading Edges....Pages 579-584
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Numerical Simulation of Instability and Transition in Boundary Layer Flows....Pages 587-598
Large-Eddy Simulations of Mixing Layers....Pages 599-608
Numerical Simulation of Transition due to Crossflow Instability....Pages 609-619
Direct Numerical Study of Crossflow Instability....Pages 621-630
Second Mode Interactions in Supersonic Boundary Layers....Pages 631-641
Front Matter....Pages 643-643
The Effect of a Single Cylindrical Roughness Element on Boundary Layer Transition in a Favourable Pressure Gradient....Pages 645-655
Front Matter....Pages 643-643
The Effect of Isolated Roughness Elements on Transition in Attachment-Line Flows....Pages 657-667
Boundary Layer Tripping in Supersonic Flow....Pages 669-679
Numerical Simulation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Instability Waves in Two-Dimensional Boundary Layers with Streamwise Pressure Gradient....Pages 681-686
Numerical Simulation of the Control of the Three-Dimensional Transition Process in Boundary Layers....Pages 687-692
On the Application of Large-Eddy Simulation to Transitional Wall-Bounded Flows....Pages 693-698
Visualisation of Boundary Layer Transition....Pages 699-704
Control of Transition of Flow over Circular Cylinder....Pages 705-710