List of hydrodynamic instabilities

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

See also

• Eponym
• List of eponymous laws
• Instability
• Hydrodynamic stability
• Scientific phenomena named after people

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).