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 |
| 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 Louis 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 |
| 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 Louis 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 |
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“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Love’s boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it’s useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“A saint is good who wanders constantly.
Water is good which flows continuously.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“Methinks it would be some advantage to philosophy if men were named merely in the gross, as they are known. It would be necessary only to know the genus and perhaps the race or variety, to know the individual. We are not prepared to believe that every private soldier in a Roman army had a name of his own,—because we have not supposed that he had a character of his own.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—May Hobbs (b. 1938)