This is a list of fluid flows named after people (eponymous flows). Flow Description Person(s) Named After 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 Ostroumov flow Flow induced by horizontal density gradients in thin fluid layers Georgy Andreyevich Ostroumov 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 cone 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
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