Stability of time Dependent and Spatially Varying Flows

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Application of Stability Theory to Laminar Flow Control—Progress and Requirements....Pages 1-17
On Secondary Instabilities in Boundary Layers....Pages 18-42
Floquet Analysis of Secondary Instability in Shear Flows....Pages 43-57
The Generation of Tollmien—Schlichting Waves by Long Wavelength Free Stream Disturbances....Pages 58-81
Numerical Experiments on Boundary-Layer Receptivity....Pages 82-96
The Linear Stability of the Incompressible Boundary Layer on an Ellipsoid at Six Degrees Incidence....Pages 97-103
Non-Linear Effects and Non-Parallel Flows: The Collapse of Separate Motion....Pages 104-147
On Short-Scale Inviscid Instabilities in the Flow Past Surface-Mounted Obstacles....Pages 148-163
Review of Linear Compressible Stability Theory....Pages 164-187
Wave Phenomena in a High Reynolds Number Compressible Boundary Layer....Pages 188-205
Instability of Time-Periodic Flows....Pages 206-224
Stability Characteristics of Some Oscillatory Flows-Poiseuille, Ekman and Films....Pages 225-243
The Stability of the Stokes Layer: Visual Observations and Some Theoretical Considerations....Pages 244-260
High Frequency Rayleigh Instability of Stokes Layers....Pages 261-275
Ginzburg-Landau Equation: Stability and Bifurcations....Pages 276-293
Stability and Resonance in Grooved-Channel Flows....Pages 294-311
Finite Length Taylor Couette Flow....Pages 312-334
Vortical Structures in the Breakdown Stage of Transition....Pages 335-350