# 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 |
| Beltrami flow | A flow in which velocity and vorticity are parallel to each other | Eugenio Beltrami |
| Berman flow | Laminar flow in channels with porous walls | Abraham S. Berman |
| Blasius flow | Boundary layer flows along a flat plate | Heinrich Blasius |
| Bickley jet | Planar jet at large Reynolds number | W. G. Bickley |
| Burgers vortex | Vortex in axisymmetric stagnation point flows | Jan Burgers |
| Burgers vortex sheet | Strained shear layer | Jan Burgers |
| Couette flow | Laminar flow between two parallel flat plates | Maurice Couette |
| Craya–Curtet jet | Jet emerging into a co-axial flow of larger radius | A. Craya and R. Curtet |
| Ekman layer | Flow with pressure gradient, Coriolis, and viscous forces | Vagn Walfrid Ekman |
| 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 |
| Glauert jet | Wall jet | M. B. Glauert |
| Gromeka–Arnold–Beltrami–Childress flow | A type of inviscid Beltrami flow | Ippolit S. Gromeka, Vladimir Arnold, Eugenio Beltrami and Steven Childress |
| Guderley–Landau–Stanyukovich flow | Imploding shock waves | G. Guderley, Lev Landau and K. P. Stanyukovich |
| Hagen–Poiseuille flow | Laminar flow through pipes | Gotthilf Hagen and Jean Léonard 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 | Karl Hiemenz |
| Homann flow | Axisymmetric stagnation-point flow | Fritz Homann |
| Jeffery–Hamel flow | Viscous flow in a wedge shaped passage | George Barker Jeffery and Georg Hamel |
| Kerr–Dold vortex | Periodic counterrotating vortices in stagnation point flows | Oliver S. Kerr and John W. Dold |
| Kovasznay flow | Flow behind a two-dimensional grid | Leslie S. G. Kovasznay |
| Landau–Squire jet | Submerged round jet from a point source | Lev Landau and Herbert Squire |
| Landau–Levich flow | Flow created in thin film coating | Lev Landau and Veniamin Levich |
| 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 Léonard 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 |
| Rayleigh problem | Flow due to sudden movement of a wall | Lord Rayleigh |
| Schlichting jet | Axisymmetric jet at large Reynolds number | Hermann Schlichting |
| Sampson flow | Flow through a circular orifice in a plane wall | R. A. Sampson |
| Schneider flow | Flow induced by jets and plumes | Wilhelm Schneider |
| 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 |
| Stokes problem | Flow due to oscillating wall | George Gabriel Stokes |
| Sullivan vortex | Two-cell vortex in axisymmetric stagnation flows | Roger D. Sullivan |
| Taylor–Couette flow | Flow in annular space between two rotating cylinders | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Couette |
| Taylor–Dean flow | Taylor–Couette flow with pressure gradient | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and William Reginald Dean |
| Taylor–Culick flow | Inviscid flow inside porous cylinder | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and F. E. C. Culick |
| Taylor–Maccoll flow | Flow behind the shock wave attached to a solid coner | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and J. W. Maccoll |
| Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast flow | Flow behind a blast wave | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, John von Neumann and Leonid Sedov |
| Taylor scraping flow | Stokes flow for scraping fluid | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
| Trkalian flow | A special case of Beltrami flow | Viktor Trkal |
| Von Kármán swirling flow | Flow created by a rotating disk | Theodore von Kármán |
| Yih plume | Laminar plume from a point source of heat | Chia-Shun Yih |
| Zeldovich–Taylor flow | Flow behind detonation waves | Yakov Zeldovich and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |