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.