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--Loeve 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.