Proceedings of the 10th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition

The 10th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, held in September 2024 at Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan, attracted nearly 135 participants from 18 countries across five continents and featured more than 100 presentations in addition to keynote and plenary lectures by eight internationally renowned invited speakers. Topics included high-speed flows, boundary layer transition, cross-flow instability, free-stream turbulence, roughness, separation, general instabilities, and complex flows. The presentations were a well-balanced mix of theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches that are necessary to advance the field of instability and transition. That experiments still have a role to play is especially true for boundary layer transition and separation at all speed ranges, since non-ideal boundary conditions (such as roughness, free-stream turbulence, sound, heat transfer, etc.) that are hard to accurately model play an important role for how disturbances enter into and develop in the system.

This book contains selected contributions representing a wide range of disciplines presented at the symposium. Researchers studying transition to turbulence and engineers who must deal with this problem, e.g. those in the aeronautical field, will easily find meaningful ideas and knowledge in these proceedings.