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
Blasius flow Blasius boundary layer In physics and fluid mechanics, a Blasius boundary layer describes the steady two-dimensional boundary layer that forms on a semi-infinite plate which is held parallel to a constant unidirectional flow U....	Boundary layer flows along a flat plate	Heinrich Blasius
Couette flow Couette flow In fluid dynamics, Couette flow refers to the laminar flow of a viscous fluid in the space between two parallel plates, one of which is moving relative to the other. The flow is driven by virtue of viscous drag force acting on the fluid and the applied pressure gradient parallel to the plates...	Laminar flow between two parallel flat plates	Maurice Couette Maurice Couette Maurice Marie Alfred Couette was a French physicist known for his studies of fluidity.-Biography:Couette was born in Tours, France, as the only child of Alfred Ernest Couette, a cloth merchant....
Falkner–Skan flow	Boundary layer flows with pressure gradient	V. M. Falkner and S. W. Skan
Fanno flow Fanno flow Fanno flow refers to adiabatic flow through a constant area duct where the effect of friction is considered. Compressibility effects often come into consideration, although the Fanno flow model certainly also applies to incompressible flow. For this model, the duct area remains constant, the flow...	Adiabatic compressible flow with friction	Gino Girolamo Fanno
Hagen–Poiseuille flow	Laminar flow through pipes	Gotthilf Hagen and Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille was a French physician and physiologist.Poiseuille was born in Paris, France.From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he earned his D.Sc...
Hele–Shaw flow	Viscous flow about a thin object filling a narrow gap between two parallel plates	Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Henry Selby Hele-Shaw FRS was an English mechanical and automobile engineer. He was the inventor of the variable-pitch propeller, which contributed to British success in the Battle of Britain in 1940, and he experimented with flows through thin cells. Flows through such configurations are named in...
Hiemenz flow	Plane stagnation-point flow - exact solution of Navier-Stokes equation	K. Hiemenz
Jeffery–Hamel flow	Viscous flow in a wedge shaped passage	George Barker Jeffery George Barker Jeffery George Barker Jeffery was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century. He is probably best known to the scientifically literate public as the translator of papers by Einstein, Lorentz, and other fathers of relativity theory .-Career:Jeffery was born in 1891 and educated at... and Georg Hamel Georg Hamel Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory....
Marangoni flow Marangoni effect The Marangoni effect is the mass transfer along an interface between two fluids due to surface tension gradient...	Flow induced by gradients in the surface tension	Carlo Marangoni Carlo Marangoni Carlo Giuseppe Matteo Marangoni was an Italian physicist.Marangoni graduated in 1865 from the University of Pavia, under the supervision of Giovanni Cantoni, with a dissertation entitled ""....
Oseen flow	Low Reynolds number flows around sphere	Carl Wilhelm Oseen Carl Wilhelm Oseen Carl Wilhelm Oseen was a theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm....
Plane Poiseuille flow	Laminar flow between two fixed parallel flat plates	Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille was a French physician and physiologist.Poiseuille was born in Paris, France.From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he earned his D.Sc...
Prandtl–Meyer flow	Compressible isentropic flow along a deflected wall	Ludwig Prandtl and Theodor Meyer
Rayleigh flow Rayleigh flow Rayleigh flow refers to diabatic flow through a constant area duct where the effect of heat addition or rejection is considered. Compressibility effects often come into consideration, although the Rayleigh flow model certainly also applies to incompressible flow. For this model, the duct area...	Inviscid compressible flow with heat transfer	Lord Rayleigh John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904...
Sampson flow	Flow through a circular orifice in a plane wall	R. A. Sampson
Stefan flow Stefan flow Stefan flow, occasionally called Stefan's flow , is a transport phenomenon concerning the movement of a chemical species by a flowing fluid that is induced to flow by the production or removal of the species at an interface...	Movement of a chemical species by a flowing fluid	Joseph Stefan Joseph Stefan Joseph Stefan was a physicist, mathematician, and poet of Slovene mother tongue and Austrian citizenship.- Life and work :...
Stokes flow	Creeping flows - very slow motion of the fluid	George Gabriel Stokes George Gabriel Stokes Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS , was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics , optics, and mathematical physics...
Taylor–Couette flow Taylor–Couette flow In fluid dynamics, the Taylor–Couette flow consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders. For low angular velocities, measured by the Reynolds number Re, the flow is steady and purely azimuthal. This basic state is known as circular Couette flow, after Maurice...	Flow in annular space between two rotating cylinders	Sir G. I. Taylor Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most notable scientists of this century".-Biography:Taylor was born in St. John's Wood, London... and Maurice Couette Maurice Couette Maurice Marie Alfred Couette was a French physicist known for his studies of fluidity.-Biography:Couette was born in Tours, France, as the only child of Alfred Ernest Couette, a cloth merchant....

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