List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after people

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This is a list of hydrodynamic and plasma instabilities named after people (eponymous instabilities).

Instability Field Named for
Benjamin–Feir instability Surface gravity waves T. Brooke Benjamin and Jim E. Feir
Plasma physics Oscar Buneman
Taylor-Couette instability of Helium II Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and R.J. Donnelly
Plasma physics Pavel Alekseevič Čerenkov
Chromo-Weibel instability Plasma physics
Crow instability Aerodynamics
Darrieus–Landau instability Stability of propagating flame Georges Jean Marie Darrieus and Lev Landau
Dean instability Stability of flow in a curved pipe William Reginald Dean
Stability of a plane shock S. P. D'Yakov and V. M. Kontorovich
Vibrating fluid surfaces M. Faraday
Farley–Buneman instability Plasma instability Donald T. Farley and Oscar Buneman
Görtler instability Stability of flow along a concave boundary layer
Stratified shear flows Jørgen Holmboe
Jeans instability Stability of interstellar gas clouds James Jeans
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability Stability of shearing flow Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz
Kruskal–Shafranov instability Plasma physics Martin David Kruskal and Vitaly Shafranov
[citation needed] Plasma physics Anthony Peratt
Plateau–Rayleigh instability Stability of jets and drops Joseph Plateau and Lord Rayleigh
Rayleigh–Bénard instability Natural convection, Rayleigh–Bénard convection Lord Rayleigh and Henri Bénard
Rayleigh–Taylor instability Instability created by density stratification Lord Rayleigh and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability Plasma physics, Astrophysics R. D. Richtmyer and
Saffman–Taylor instability Flow in porous medium Philip Saffman and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Stratified shear flows Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Colm-cille P. Caulfield
Taylor–Couette instability Flow in rotating cylinder Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Marie Alfred Couette
Tollmien–Schlichting instability Wave instability in shearing flows Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting
Velikhov instability Plasma physics (non-equilibrium MHD) Evgeny Velikhov
Velikhov-Chandrasekhar instability Stability of rotating fluid in magnetic field Evgeny Velikhov and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Weibel instability Plasma physics

See also[]

References[]

  • Chandrashekhar, S., Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability, Dover Publications, New York (1981).
  • Drazin, P. G. and W. H. Reid, Hydrodynamic Stability, Cambridge Univ. Press, London (1981).
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