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[1] | Abraham S. Berman | |
| Boundary layer flows along a flat plate | Heinrich Blasius | ||
| Planar jet at large Reynolds number | W. G. Bickley | ||
| Vortex in axisymmetric stagnation point flows | Jan Burgers | ||
| Strained shear layer | Jan Burgers | ||
| Laminar flow between two parallel flat plates | Maurice Couette | ||
| Jet emerging into a co-axial flow of larger radius | A. Craya and R. Curtet | ||
| Flow with pressure gradient, Coriolis, and viscous forces | Vagn Walfrid Ekman | ||
| Boundary layer flows with pressure gradient | V. M. Falkner and S. W. Skan | ||
| Adiabatic compressible flow with friction | Gino Girolamo Fanno | ||
| Wall jet | M. B. Glauert | ||
| Ippolit S. Gromeka, Vladimir Arnold, Eugenio Beltrami and Steven Childress | |||
| Imploding shock waves | G. Guderley, Lev Landau and K. P. Stanyukovich | ||
| Laminar flow through pipes | Gotthilf Hagen and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille | ||
| Viscous flow about a thin object filling a narrow gap between two parallel plates | Henry Selby Hele-Shaw | ||
| Plane stagnation-point flow | Karl Hiemenz | ||
| Axisymmetric stagnation-point flow | Fritz Homann | ||
| Viscous flow in a wedge shaped passage | George Barker Jeffery and Georg Hamel | ||
| Periodic counterrotating vortices in stagnation point flows | Oliver S. Kerr and John W. Dold | ||
| Flow behind a two-dimensional grid | Leslie S. G. Kovasznay | ||
| Submerged round jet from a point source | Lev Landau and Herbert Squire | ||
| Flow created in thin film coating | Lev Landau and Veniamin Levich | ||
| Flow induced by gradients in the surface tension | Carlo Marangoni | ||
| Low Reynolds number flows around sphere | Carl Wilhelm Oseen | ||
| Laminar flow between two fixed parallel flat plates | Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille | ||
| Compressible isentropic flow along a deflected wall | Ludwig Prandtl and Theodor Meyer | ||
| Inviscid compressible flow with heat transfer | Lord Rayleigh | ||
| Flow due to sudden movement of a wall | Lord Rayleigh | ||
| Axisymmetric jet at large Reynolds number | Hermann Schlichting | ||
| Flow through a circular orifice in a plane wall | R. A. Sampson | ||
| Flow induced by jets and plumes | Wilhelm Schneider | ||
| Movement of a chemical species by a flowing fluid | Joseph Stefan | ||
| Creeping flows – very slow motion of the fluid | George Gabriel Stokes | ||
| Flow due to oscillating wall | George Gabriel Stokes | ||
| Two-cell vortex in axisymmetric stagnation flows | Roger D. Sullivan | ||
| Flow in annular space between two rotating cylinders | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Couette | ||
| Taylor–Couette flow with pressure gradient | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and William Reginald Dean | ||
| Inviscid flow inside porous cylinder | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and F. E. C. Culick | ||
| Flow behind the shock wave attached to a solid coner | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and J. W. Maccoll | ||
| Flow behind a blast wave | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, John von Neumann and Leonid Sedov | ||
| Stokes flow for scraping fluid | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | ||
| Viktor Trkal | |||
| Flow created by a rotating disk | |||
| Laminar plume from a point source of heat | |||
| Flow behind detonation waves | Yakov Zeldovich and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |