This is a list of fluid flows named after people (eponymous flows).
Flow | Description | Person(s) Named After |
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Beltrami flow | A flow in which velocity and vorticity are parallel to each other | Eugenio Beltrami |
Berman flow | Laminar flow in channels with porous walls | Abraham S. Berman |
Blasius flow | Boundary layer flows along a flat plate | Heinrich Blasius |
Bickley jet | Planar jet at large Reynolds number | W. G. Bickley |
Burgers vortex | Vortex in axisymmetric stagnation point flows | Jan Burgers |
Burgers vortex sheet | Strained shear layer | Jan Burgers |
Couette flow | Laminar flow between two parallel flat plates | Maurice Couette |
Craya–Curtet jet | Jet emerging into a co-axial flow of larger radius | A. Craya and R. Curtet |
Ekman layer | Flow with pressure gradient, Coriolis, and viscous forces | Vagn Walfrid Ekman |
Falkner–Skan flow | Boundary layer flows with pressure gradient | V. M. Falkner and S. W. Skan |
Fanno flow | Adiabatic compressible flow with friction | Gino Girolamo Fanno |
Glauert jet | Wall jet | M. B. Glauert |
Gromeka–Arnold–Beltrami–Childress flow | A type of inviscid Beltrami flow | Ippolit S. Gromeka, Vladimir Arnold, Eugenio Beltrami and Steven Childress |
Guderley–Landau–Stanyukovich flow | Imploding shock waves | G. Guderley, Lev Landau and K. P. Stanyukovich |
Hagen–Poiseuille flow | Laminar flow through pipes | Gotthilf Hagen and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille |
Hele-Shaw flow | Viscous flow about a thin object filling a narrow gap between two parallel plates | Henry Selby Hele-Shaw |
Hiemenz flow | Plane stagnation-point flow | Karl Hiemenz |
Homann flow | Axisymmetric stagnation-point flow | Fritz Homann |
Jeffery–Hamel flow | Viscous flow in a wedge shaped passage | George Barker Jeffery and Georg Hamel |
Kerr–Dold vortex | Periodic counterrotating vortices in stagnation point flows | Oliver S. Kerr and John W. Dold |
Kovasznay flow | Flow behind a two-dimensional grid | Leslie S. G. Kovasznay |
Landau–Squire jet | Submerged round jet from a point source | Lev Landau and Herbert Squire |
Landau–Levich flow | Flow created in thin film coating | Lev Landau and Veniamin Levich |
Marangoni flow | Flow induced by gradients in the surface tension | Carlo Marangoni |
Oseen flow | Low Reynolds number flows around sphere | Carl Wilhelm Oseen |
Plane Poiseuille flow | Laminar flow between two fixed parallel flat plates | Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille |
Prandtl–Meyer flow | Compressible isentropic flow along a deflected wall | Ludwig Prandtl and Theodor Meyer |
Rayleigh flow | Inviscid compressible flow with heat transfer | Lord Rayleigh |
Rayleigh problem | Flow due to sudden movement of a wall | Lord Rayleigh |
Schlichting jet | Axisymmetric jet at large Reynolds number | Hermann Schlichting |
Sampson flow | Flow through a circular orifice in a plane wall | R. A. Sampson |
Schneider flow | Flow induced by jets and plumes | Wilhelm Schneider |
Stefan flow | Movement of a chemical species by a flowing fluid | Joseph Stefan |
Stokes flow | Creeping flows – very slow motion of the fluid | George Gabriel Stokes |
Stokes problem | Flow due to oscillating wall | George Gabriel Stokes |
Sullivan vortex | Two-cell vortex in axisymmetric stagnation flows | Roger D. Sullivan |
Taylor–Couette flow | Flow in annular space between two rotating cylinders | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Couette |
Taylor–Dean flow | Taylor–Couette flow with pressure gradient | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and William Reginald Dean |
Taylor–Culick flow | Inviscid flow inside porous cylinder | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and F. E. C. Culick |
Taylor–Maccoll flow | Flow behind the shock wave attached to a solid coner | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and J. W. Maccoll |
Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast flow | Flow behind a blast wave | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, John von Neumann and Leonid Sedov |
Taylor scraping flow | Stokes flow for scraping fluid | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
Trkalian flow | A special case of Beltrami flow | Viktor Trkal |
Von Kármán swirling flow | Flow created by a rotating disk | Theodore von Kármán |
Yih plume | Laminar plume from a point source of heat | Chia-Shun Yih |
Zeldovich–Taylor flow | Flow behind detonation waves | Yakov Zeldovich and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
See also
- Eponym
- List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after people
- List of laws in science
- Scientific phenomena named after people
References
- Berman, Abraham S. (1953). "Laminar Flow in Channels with Porous Walls". Journal of Applied Physics. 24 (9): 1232–1235. Bibcode:1953JAP....24.1232B. doi:10.1063/1.1721476.