IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions

Modeling the Direct Transition to Turbulence. - Dynamical Systems and the Transition to Turbulence. - Nonlinear Solutions of Simple Plane Shear Layers with and without a System Rotation. - Co-Supporting Cycle: Sustaining Mechanism of Large-Scale Structures and Near-Wall Structures in Channel Flow Turbulence. - Transition Threshold and the Self-Sustaining Process. - Turbulent-Laminar Patterns in Plane Couette Flow. - Subcritical Turbulent Transition in Rotating and Curved Shear Flows. - The Karhunen-Loève Decomposition of the Autonomous Minimal Flow Unit. - Coherent States in Transitional Pipe Flow. - Instability, Transition and Turbulence in Plane Couette Flow with System Rotation. - Transition to Versus from Turbulence in Subcritical Couette Flows. - Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow. - Threshold Amplitudes in Subcritical Shear Flows. - Non-Linear Optimal Perturbations in Subcritical Instabilities. - A Bypass Scenario of Laminarturbulent Transition in the Wind-Driven Free-Surface Boundary Layer. - Viscoelastic Nonlinear Traveling Waves and Drag Reduction in Plane Poiseuille Flow. - Subcritical Instabilities in Plane Couette Flow of Visco-Elastic Fluids.