Annual review of fluid mechanics. Volume 20

The present volume discusses the role of fractals in fluid mechanics, adaptive wind tunnel design, fluid dynamic models of geological hotspots, remote sea surface sensing, Stokesian dynamics, the initial stage of water impacts, and the magnetoconvection and magnetic buoyancy effects of magnetic fields in the solar convection zone. Also discussed are Hamiltonian fluid dynamics, surf-zone dynamics, sand transport phenomena in the continental shelf, foam flow characteristics, instability mechanisms in shear-flow transition, compliant coatings, digital image processing in flow visualization, and the secondary instabilities of boundary layers