List of fluid flows named after people
This is a list of fluid flows named after people (eponymous flows).
| Flow | Description | Person(s) Named After |
|---|---|---|
| Beltrami flow[1] | A flow in which velocity and vorticity are parallel to each other | Eugenio Beltrami |
| Blasius flow | Boundary layer flows along a flat plate | Heinrich Blasius |
| Couette flow | Laminar flow between two parallel flat plates | Maurice Couette |
| 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 |
| 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 – exact solution of Navier-Stokes equation | K. Hiemenz |
| Hudson River | Gravity-driven meridional translational flow | Henry Hudson |
| Jeffery–Hamel flow | Viscous flow in a wedge shaped passage | George Barker Jeffery and Georg Hamel |
| 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 |
| Sampson flow | Flow through a circular orifice in a plane wall | R. A. Sampson |
| 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 |
| Taylor–Couette flow | Flow in annular space between two rotating cylinders | Sir G. I. Taylor and Maurice Couette |
See also
References
- ↑ Kambe, T. (2010). Geometrical Theory of Dynamical Systems and Fluid Flows. World Scientific.
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