Bluff-Body Wakes, Dynamics and Instabilities: IUTAM Symposium, Göttingen, Germany September 7–11, 1992

Bluff-body wakes play an important role in many fluid

dynamics problems and engineering applications.

This book gives and up-to-date account of recent results

obtained in the study of bluff-body wakes. Experimental,

theoretical and numerical approaches are all comprehensively

covered and compared. Topics of particular interest include

hydrodynamic instability analyses, three-dimensional pattern

formation problems, flow control methods, bifurcation

analyses, numerical simulations and turbulence modelling.

The main originality of thisvolume is that recent

conceptual advances made to describe nonlinear phenomena in

general are put to the test on a classical problem in

fundamental fluid mechanics, namely the wake structure

generated behind a bluff object.