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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
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
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 coner 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

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References

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