Abstract: The secondary instability of the incompressible boundary layer in the axial flow past a cylinder is studied. The laminar flow is shown to be always stable at high transverse curvatures to ...

Abstract: An analysis of procedures in current use for prediction of transition onset location shows that they are generally in poor agreement with data obtained in test facilities at low freestream ...

Abstract: We show that flow in the entry region of a circular pipe is linearly unstable at a Reynolds number of 1000, a factor of 10 smaller than assumed hitherto. The implication that dynamics in ...