**Meet the editor**

Dr. Mustafa Serdar Genç is currently instructor of Aerodynamics at the Department of Energy Systems Engineering in Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey. He has more than 50 scientific publications including international journal articles, book and book chapters and international and national conference papers.

Dr.Genç's recent research interests are experimental and computational aerodynamics, low Reynolds number aerodynamics, micro air vehicles, flexible wing aerodynamics, flow induced vibrations, flow control, wind energy, meteorology, mechanics of composite materials. He has carried out more than 10 scientific projects with regard to aerodynamics and composite materials researches.

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**

#### **Part 1 Low Reynolds Number Flows 1**

Chapter 1 **Low Reynolds Number Flows and Transition 3**  M. Serdar Genç, İlyas Karasu, H. Hakan Açıkel and M. Tuğrul Akpolat

#### **Part 2 Transition Modelling 29**

	- **Part 3 Flow Control 97**

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#### Chapter 7 **Thermal Perturbations in Supersonic Transition 139**  Hong Yan

## Preface

This book reports the latest development and trends in the low Re number aerodynamics, transition from laminar to turbulence, unsteady low Reynolds number flows, experimental studies, numerical transition modelling, control of low Re number flows, and MAV wing aerodynamics. This book focuses particularly on: (1) a review and brief information study on low Reynolds number flows and transition as an introduction to low Re number aerodynamics (Chapter 1), (2) transition modelling (Chapters 2-4), flow control (Chapters 5-7). The contributors to each chapter are fluid mechanics and aerodynamics scientists and engineers with strong expertise in their respective fields. As a whole, the studies presented here reveal important new directions toward the realization of applications of MAV and wind turbine blades. We hope that this book will be used by scientists and engineers working in the area of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics researchers.

> **Dr. Mustafa Serdar Genç**  Department of Energy Systems Engineering, University of Erciyes, Kayseri, Turkey
