“…A complete understanding of the bypass transition has not been attained, despite research efforts based on experiments [33,11,16,17,37,39], numerical simulations [20,24,38], and theoretical analysis [26] (hereafter referred to LWG99) [28,60,44,13]. The boundary layer has been revealed to act as a filter for the full-spectrum free-stream vortical disturbances, thereby allowing low frequency disturbances to penetrate into the boundary-layer core and to amplify significantly, whilst preventing high-frequency fluctuations from growing downstream.…”