%L upm37655 %A Qiong Liu %D 2012 %T On the role of global flow instability analysis in closed loop flow control %B Flow Control Conference, Fluid Dynamics and Co-located Conferences %I AIAA %C Reston, Virginia %X Control of linear flow instabilities has been demonstrated to be an effective theoretical flow control methodology, capable of modifying transitional flow on canonical geometries such as the plane channel and the flat-plate boundary layer.