List of waves named after people
This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).
Wave | Field | Person(s) named after |
---|---|---|
Alfvén wave | Magnetohydrodynamics | Hannes Alfvén |
Bloch wave | Solid state physics, condensed matter physics | Felix Bloch |
de Broglie wave | Quantum physics | Louis de Broglie |
Elliott wave | Finance | Ralph Nelson Elliott |
Faraday wave | Water waves | Michael Faraday |
Gerstner wave[1] | Water waves, oceanography | František Josef Gerstner |
Kelvin wave | Oceanography, atmospheric dynamics | Lord Kelvin |
Lamb wave | Acoustics, elastic waves | Horace Lamb |
Langmuir wave | Plasma physics | Irving Langmuir |
Love wave | Elastodynamics, surface waves | Augustus Edward Hough Love |
Mach wave | Fluid dynamics | Ernst Mach |
Rayleigh wave or Rayleigh–Lamb wave | Surface acoustic waves, seismology | Lord Rayleigh and Horace Lamb |
Rossby wave | Meteorology, oceanography | Carl-Gustaf Rossby |
Stokes wave | Surface gravity waves, water waves | George Gabriel Stokes |
Tollmien–Schlichting wave | Stability of laminar flows | Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Truesdell, C.; Rajagopal, K. R. (2008). An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids (2 ed.). Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-0-8176-4845-9. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
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