Stability of Laminar Flow
This Chapter is devoted to the complex problematic of laminar flow stability, intermittency, steady and unsteady boundary transition. The phenomena of stability of laminar flows, transition, and turbulence were systematically studied first by O. Reynolds [1] in the eighties of the eighteenth century. H. Schlichting [2], [3] and in his classical textbook Boundary Layer Theory [4] gives an excellent treatment of these complex flow phenomena and critically reviews the contributions up to 1979, where the seventh and last edition of his book appeared. In this chapter, we first treat the fundamental issues pertaining to the subject matter followed by original contributions recently made in the area of steady and unsteady boundary layer transition.
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Schobeiri, M.T. (2010). Laminar-Turbulent Transition. In: Fluid Mechanics for Engineers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11594-3_8
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