This is a list of hydrodynamic and plasma instabilities named after people (eponymous instabilities).
| Instability | Field | Named for | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface gravity waves | T. Brooke Benjamin and Jim E. Feir | ||
| Plasma physics | Oscar Buneman | ||
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and R.J. Donnelly | |||
| Instability of rotating self-gravitating mass due to gravitational radiation damping | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, John L. Friedman and Bernard F. Schutz | ||
| Plasma physics | Pavel Alekseevič Čerenkov | ||
| Plasma physics | E. S. Weibel | ||
| Aerodynamics | S. C. Crow | ||
| Stability of propagating flame | Georges Jean Marie Darrieus and Lev Landau | ||
| Stability of flow in a curved pipe | William Reginald Dean | ||
| Stability of a plane shock | S. P. D'Yakov and Victor M. Kontorovich | ||
| Vibrating fluid surfaces | M. Faraday | ||
| Plasma instability | Donald T. Farley and Oscar Buneman | ||
| Stratified shear flows | Jørgen Holmboe | ||
| Stability of interstellar gas clouds | James Jeans | ||
| Stability of shearing flow | Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz | ||
| Plasma physics | Martin David Kruskal and Vitaly Shafranov | ||
| Peratt instability[1] | Plasma physics | Anthony Peratt | |
| Stability of jets and drops | Joseph Plateau and Lord Rayleigh | ||
| Natural convection, Rayleigh–Bénard convection | Lord Rayleigh and Henri Bénard | ||
| Instability created by density stratification | Lord Rayleigh and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | ||
| Plasma physics, Astrophysics | R. D. Richtmyer and E. E. Meshkov | ||
| Instability of rotating self-gravitating mass due to viscosity | Paul H. Roberts and Keith Stewartson | ||
| Flow in porous medium | Philip Saffman and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | ||
| Stratified shear flows | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Colm-cille P. Caulfield | ||
| Flow in rotating cylinder | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Marie Alfred Couette | ||
| Wave instability in shearing flows | Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting | ||
| Plasma physics (non-equilibrium MHD) | Evgeny Velikhov | ||
| Stability of rotating fluid in magnetic field | Evgeny Velikhov and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | ||
| Plasma physics | E. S. Weibel |