This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).
Wave | Field | Person(s) named after |
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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 |
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 |
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of waves named after people.
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