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Boundary-layer receptivity to freestream disturbances

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The boundary-layer receptivity to external acoustic and vortical disturbances is reviewed in this article. But, the authors do not consider the effects of external acoustic or vortic disturbances on the boundary layer.
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The current understanding of boundary-layer receptivity to external acoustic and vortical disturbances is reviewed. Recent advances in theoretical modeling, numerical simulations, and experiments are discussed. It is shown that aspects of the theory have been validated and that the mechanisms by which freestream disturbances provide the initial conditions for unstable waves are better understood. Challenges remain, however, particularly with respect to freestream turbulence

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Adaptive and Model-Based Control Theory Applied to Convectively Unstable Flows

TL;DR: It is found that an adaptive control technique is more suitable to delay the laminar-to-turbulent transition in situations where an accurate model of the flow is not available.
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Modal Stability TheoryLecture notes from the FLOW-NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013

TL;DR: In this article, a review of modal stability theory for parallel flows is presented, including temporal stability, spatial stability, phase velocity, group velocity, and spati-calculus.
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Linear Closed-Loop Control of Fluid Instabilities and Noise-Induced Perturbations: A Review of Approaches and Tools

TL;DR: In this paper, the design of linear reduced-order models and control laws for closed-loop control of open-cavity flows is discussed, where the authors show that large delays and strong amplification between the control input and the estimation sensor may be detrimental both to performance and robustness.
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Aerodynamic optimization of the flat-plate leading edge for experimental studies of laminar and transitional boundary layers

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of important geometrical features of the leading edge on the resulting pressure distribution, starting from the well-known symmetric modified super ellipse, was investigated.
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Stability and Transition in Shear Flows

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to the Viscous Initial Value Problem with the objective of finding the optimal growth rate and the optimal response to the initial value problem.
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A note on an algebraic instability of inviscid parallel shear flows

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that all parallel inviscid shear flows of constant density are unstable to a wide class of initial infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances in the sense that, according to linear theory, the kinetic energy of the disturbance will grow at least as fast as linearly in time.
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Parabolized stability equations

TL;DR: Parabolized stability equations (PSE) have been used for aerodynamic design of laminar flow control systems as discussed by the authors, and they can be obtained at modest computational expense.
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Optimal disturbances and bypass transition in boundary layers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the steady boundary-layer approximation to calculate the upstream disturbances experiencing maximum spatial energy growth, which are numerically calculated using techniques commonly employed when solving optimal-control problems for distributed parameter systems.
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Reynolds number independent instability of the boundary layer over a flat surface : optimal perturbations

TL;DR: In this article, the dependence on initial conditions of the three-dimensional algebraic spatial instability of the Blasius boundary layer is examined by a recently developed method of receptivity analysis based on the upstream integration of adjoint equations.