List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after people

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This is a list of hydrodynamic and plasma instabilities named after people (eponymous instabilities).

Instability | Field | Named for

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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[1] | 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

1. ↑ "Peratt Instabilities, Plasma Columns, Z-Pinch. The Axis Mundi." (in en-GB). https://www.eixdelmon.com/peratt-instabilities-plasma-columns-z-pinch/.

* 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).

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