This monograph presents the state of the art of theory and applications in fluid flow control, assembling contributions by leading experts in the field. The book covers a wide range of recent topics including vortex based control algorithms, incompressible turbulent boundary layers, aerodynamic flow control, control of mixing and reactive flow processes or nonlinear modeling and control of combustion dynamics.

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Control of Weak and Strong Reverse-Flow Regions in Incompressible Turbulent Boundary Layers.- Aerodynamic Flow Control Using Synthetic Jet Actuators.- Control of Mixing and Reactive Flow Processes.- Nonlinear Modeling and Control of Combustion Dynamics.- Control of Acoustics.- Distributed Control and Observation.- Global Boundary Stabilization of 2D Poiseuille Flow.- Exact Controllability and Feedback Stabilization from a Boundary for the Navier-Stokes Equations.- Vortex-based Control Algorithms.- Flow Optimization Using Stochastic Algorithms.