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 |
| Benjamin–Feir instability | Surface gravity waves | T. Brooke Benjamin and Jim E. Feir |
| Buneman instability | Plasma physics | Oscar Buneman |
| Cherenkov instability | Plasma physics | Pavel Alekseevič Čerenkov |
| Chromo-Weibel instability | Plasma physics | E. S. Weibel |
| Crow instability | Aerodynamics | S. C. Crow |
| 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 |
| Saffman–Taylor instability | Flow in porous medium | Philip Saffman and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
| Taylor–Couette instability | Flow in rotating cylinder | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Marie Alfred Couette |
| Velikhov instability | Plasma physics (non-equilibrium MHD) | Evgeny Velikhov |
| Weibel instability | Plasma physics | E. S. Weibel |
Famous quotes containing the words list of and/or list:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“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)