Prologue to the International Conference on Massively Separated Flows and Their Control

An international meeting on Massively Separated Flows, focusing on instability and control of and noise generated by flow separation from the incompressible to the hypersonic regime was organized at the Monash Center in Prato, Italy, Sept. 4–6, 2013. This focused workshop brought together 50 leading specialists in the subject matter of the conference from the USA, UK, Israel, Spain, Germany, Sweden, France, Brazil, Australia, India, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, in order to assess the state-of-the-art of theory, experimentation and computation of massively separated flows in aeronautics and related fields.