List of fluid flows named after people

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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[1] | 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
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
Gromeka–Arnold–Beltrami–Childress flow | A type of inviscid Beltrami flow | Ippolit S. Gromeka, Vladimir Arnold, Eugenio Beltrami and Steven Childress
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–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

1. ↑ Berman, Abraham S. (1953). "Laminar Flow in Channels with Porous Walls". Journal of Applied Physics 24 (9): 1232–1235. doi:10.1063/1.1721476. Bibcode: 1953JAP....24.1232B.

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