The subject of flow control is broadly introduced in this first chapter, leaving much of the details to the subsequent chapters of the book. The ability to actively or passively manipulate a flow field to effect a desired change is of immense technologic
Equations describing fluid motion, and some of their simpler solutions, can be found in particular in Sect. 1 of the book by Monin and Yaglom (1971) (later referred as MYl). It is also pointed out there that these solutions do not by any means always cor