Journal of Fluid Mechanics Volume 505 25 April 2004 L. Lacaze, P. Le Gal Elliptical instability in a rotating spheroid & S. Le Dizés V. M. Gryanik, H. Borth lhe theory of quasi-geostropic von Karman vortex streets in two-layer & D. Olbers fluids on a beta-plane M. G. Blyth & C . Pozrikidis Effect of surfactants on the stability of two-layer channel flow V. Yakhot Decay of three-dimensional turbulence at high Reynolds numbers M. Righetti & G. P. Romano Particle—fluid interactions in a plane near-wall turbulent flow R. A. Antonia & P. Orlandi Similarity of decaying isotropic turbulence with a passive scalar T.J . Bridges Superharmonic instability, \omoclinic torus bifurcation and water-wave breaking J. R. Lister Thermal winds forced by inhomogeneous boundary conditions in rotating, stratified, hydromagnetic fluid J. Jiménez, J. C. del Alamo The large-scale dynamics of near-wall turbulence & O. Flores D. G. Dritschel, J. N. Reinaud The quasi-geostrophic ellipsoidal vortex model & W. J. McKiver P. L.-F. Liu & K. Al-Banaa Solitary wave runup and force on a vertical barrier A. M. Leshansky, The leading effect of fluid inertia on the motion of ri gid bodies at low O. M. Lavrenteva & A. Nir Reynolds number V. Theofilis, P. W. Duck Viscous linear stability analysis of rectangular duct and cavity flows & J. Owen M. G. Worster Time-dependent fluxes across double-diffusive interfaces J. Eggers & H. A. Stone Characteristic lengths at moving contact lines for a perfectly w etting fluid: the influence of speed on the dynamic contact ang le D. Fructus & J. Grue Fully nonlinear solitary waves in a layered stratified fluid I. Eames & J.C. R. Hunt Forces on bodies moving unsteadily in rapidly compressed flows D. D. Joseph & J. Wang The dissipation approximation and viscous potential flow Book REVIEW { Practical Guide to Boundary Element Methods with Software Library BEMLIB [He INDEX TO VOLUME 505 il | CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Journals Online journals.cambridge.org UNIVERSITY PRESS 0022-1120(200404)505;1-B