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This paper provides an overview of the theoretical and computational boundary-layer receptivity, stability, and control research conducted by the author over the past four decades in collaboration with her colleagues and students. The overarching approach has been one of verification and validation, including working closely with experimentalists (both with ground facilities and flight platforms) to achieve closure between theory and experiment. She and her team have worked to identify instability mechanisms in complex three-dimensional (3-D) configurations, create and transfer physics-based models and tools, guidelines, and correlations including for surface features, and formulate effective control strategies.

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The author gratefully acknowledges support over the years from: Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arnold Engineering Development Center, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Aerospace, Office of Naval Research, Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing Group, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Pointwise, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing. She is also grateful to the many outstanding graduate and undergraduate students and other colleagues with whom she has had the privilege to collaborate.

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Reed, H.L. (2022). Progress in Stability and Transition Research. In: Sherwin, S., Schmid, P., Wu, X. (eds) IUTAM Laminar-Turbulent Transition. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67902-6_4

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