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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
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

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).

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