Abbot, Anthony Halley2016-07-062016-07-062016http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20553This thesis is an experimental, analytical and numerical investigation of pipe flows started impulsively from rest and thereafter accelerated exponentially with time. The broad objectives were to reconcile measured base flow and transition inception data with linear stability predictions, [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]enPipe -- Fluid dynamics.Pipe -- Hydrodynamics.Turbulence.Thesis