Overview of some theoretical and experimental results on modeling and control of shear flows

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in the modeling and control of transitional and turbulent shear flows, with particular emphasis on mixing applications. The review is divided into two parts. The first part provides a literature survey of analytical and experimental approaches to the modeling and control of mixing in shear flows. The second part presents some recent results in the development of reduced-order models and model-based control of mixing in some prototypical shear flow problems.