Written by experts in the field, this book, "Boundary Layer Flows - Theory, Applications, and Numerical Methods" provides readers with the opportunity to explore its theoretical and experimental studies and their importance to the nonlinear theory of boundary layer flows, the theory of heat and mass transfer, and the dynamics of fluid. With the theory's importance for a wide variety of applications, applied mathematicians, scientists, and engineers - especially those in fluid dynamics - along with engineers of aeronautics, will undoubtedly welcome this authoritative, up-to-date book.

This report summarizes research conducted during the past year whose aim is to develop and test an accurate and efficient method for describing boundary-layer development in the transition region. A low-Reynolds-number version of the Wilcox k-w model has been postulated and tested against experimental data for 10 fully turbulent boundary layers and for more than 20 transitional cases. Overall discrepancies between theory and experiment are smaller than those for simpler correlations designed for use with algebraic turbulence models. Singular perturbation analysis of the compressible viscous sublayer and defect layer has been initiated with some interesting preliminary results. Some progress has been made toward eliminating the k-w model's sensitivity to the freestream boundary condition on w ... Transition, Turbulence modeling, Hypersonics, Computational fluid dynamics.