Taylor-Couette Flow, Experiment and Theory: Evolution of Instrumentation for Taylor-Couette Flow; R.J. Donnelly. Phase Dynamics in the Taylor-Couette System; M. Wu, C.D. Andereck. Taylor-Couette Flow Systems with Broken Rotational Symmetry: End Circulation in Non-Axisymmetrical Flows; C. Normand et, al. Turbulence in Taylor-Couette and Plane Couette Flow: Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow; S. Hirschberg. Instabilities, Pattern Formation, and Turbulence in Model Equations: Double Eigenvalues and the Formation of Flow Patterns; R. Meyer-Spache. Extensions of Taylor-Couette Flow: Taylor Vortex Flow with Superimposed Radial Mass Flux; K. Buehler. Open Flows: Structure and Perturbation in Gortler Vortex Flow; P. Petitjeans, J.E. Wesfreid. Appendix: A Guide to Literature Related to the Taylor-Couette Problem; R. Tagg. 24 additional articles. Index.

Seldom does a physical system, particularly one as apparently simple as the flow of a Newtonian fluid between concentric rotating cylinders, retain the interest of scientists, applied mathematicians and engineers for very long. Yet, as this volume goes to press it has been nearly 70 years since G. I. Taylor's outstanding experimental and theoretical study of the linear stability of this flow was published, and a century since the first experiments were performed on rotating cylinder viscometers. Since then, the study of this system has progressed enormously, but new features of the flow patterns are still being uncovered. Interesting variations on the basic system abound. Connections with open flows are being made. More complex fluids are used in some experiments. The vigor of the research going on in this particular example of nonequilibrium systems was very apparent at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Ordered and Turbulent Patterns in Taylor Couette Flow," held in Columbus, Ohio, USA May 22-24, 1991. A primary goal of this ARW was to bring together those interested in pattern formation in the classic Taylor Couette problem with those looking at variations on the basic system and with those interested in related systems, in order to better define the interesting areas for the future, the open questions, and the features common (and not common) to closed and open systems. This volume contains many of the contributions presented during the workshop.