Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research written by Hans-Joachim Heinemann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-20 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.