List of hydrodynamic instabilities
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This is a list of hydrodynamic and plasma instabilities named after people (eponymous instabilities).
| Instability | Field | Person(s) Named After |
|---|---|---|
| Bénard instability | Natural convection, Rayleigh-Bénard convection | Henri Bénard |
| Crow instability | Aerodynamics | S. C Crow |
| Buneman instability | Plasma physics | Oscar Buneman |
| Cherenkov instability | Plasma physics | Pavel Alekseevič Čerenkov |
| Chromo-Weibel instability | Plasma physics | E. S. Weibel |
| Darrieus-Landau instability | Flame propagation | G. Darrieus and Lev Landau |
| Kelvin–Helmholtz instability | Interfacial flows | Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz |
| Peratt instability | Plasma physics | Anthony Peratt |
| Plateau-Rayleigh instability | Stability of jets and drops | Joseph Plateau and Lord Rayleigh |
| Rayleigh–Taylor instability | Density-stratified flows, Astrophysics | Lord Rayleigh and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
| Richtmyer-Meshkov instability | Plasma physics, Astrophysics | R. D. Richtmyer and E. E. Meshkov |
| Taylor-Couette instability | Flow in rotating cylinder | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Marie Alfred Couette |
| Weibel instability | Plasma physics | E. S. Weibel |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- 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).
