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 Buneman instability Plasma physics Oscar Buneman Chandrasekhar–Donnelly instability Taylor-Couette instability of Helium II Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and R.J. Donnelly Chandrasekhar–Friedman–Schutz instability Instability of rotating self-gravitating mass due to gravitational radiation damping Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, John L. Friedman and Bernard F. Schutz Cherenkov instability Plasma physics Pavel Alekseevich Cherenkov Chromo-Weibel instability Plasma physics E. S. Weibel Crow instability Aerodynamics S. C. Crow 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 D'yakov–Kontorovich instability Stability of a plane shock S. P. D'yakov and Victor M. Kontorovich Faraday instability 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 H. Görtler Holmboe instability 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 Peratt instability 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 E. E. Meshkov Roberts–Stewartson instability Instability of rotating self-gravitating mass due to viscosity Paul H. Roberts and Keith Stewartson Saffman–Taylor instability Flow in porous medium Philip Saffman and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Taylor–Caulfield instability 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 E. S. Weibel
See also Eponym List of fluid flows named after people Instability Hydrodynamic stability Scientific phenomena named after people
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).