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Transition from laminar to turbulent flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

J. E. Ffowcs Williams ,
S. Rosenblat  and
J. T. Stuart
J. E. Ffowcs Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
S. Rosenblat
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
J. T. Stuart
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
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Abstract

A NATO Advanced Study Institute on the topic of transition from laminar flow to turbulence was held at Imperial College, London, from 1 to 6 July 1968. Each morning's session was started with a one-hour general lecture, and was followed by five or six half-hour lectures interspaced with discussion periods. The main lecturers were C. C. Lin (general survey), S. Rosenblat (stability of time-dependent flows), L. S. G. Kovasznay (turbulent, non-turbulent interfaces), L. E. Scriven (free surface effects) and A. A. Townsend (shear turbulence). The idea of the meeting was to bring forth and to discuss current ideas in the subject, both from the point of view of developments out of laminar flow and from that of developments into real turbulence. To this end speakers were chosen to introduce a variety of topics ranging from laminar-flow instabilities (with emphasis on aspects at present imperfectly understood), through non-linear effects to the processes affecting turbulence itself.

Many ideas recurred throughout the meeting, both at lectures and in discussion periods. This is true, for example, of several relevant points forcefully made by C. C. Lin. For this reason the present account does not attempt to describe the proceedings of the meeting in chronological order, but rather takes an overall view of the subject matter and points to the areas of agreement and of controversy in relation to various problems.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , 27 November 1969 , pp. 547 - 559
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© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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