Stability and transition in shear flows (Q1576546)

The book addresses to graduate students as well as to a broad community of researchers with a basic knowledge of fundamental fluid dynamics. It consists of an introduction, two parts, an appendix, bibliography and subject index. The first part ``Temporal stability of parallel shear flows'' exposes the fundamental concepts underlying the hydrodynamic stability theory. The second part ``Stability of complex flows and transition'' deals with more advanced topics. They include some transition scenarios. The topics are treated with mathematical rigor while the physical motivation and usefulness of mathematical concepts is kept close at hand. The work is elegantly structured, and the graphical material is very suggestive.