IUTAM Symposium on One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research - Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at DLR-Goettingen, Germany, August 12-14, 2004 (Paperback, 2006 ed.)

This book collects peer-reviewed lectures of the IUTAM Symposium on the 100th anniversary of Boundary Layer research. No other reference of this calibre, on this topic, is likely to be published for the next decade. Covers classification, definition and mathematics of boundary layers; instability of boundary layers and transition; boundary layers control; turbulent boundary layers; numerical treatment and boundary layer modelling; special effects in boundary layers.