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    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
    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

    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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