List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after peopleThis is a list of hydrodynamic and plasma instabilities named after people.InstabilityFieldNamed forBenjamin–Feir instabilitySurface gravity wavesT. Brooke Benjamin and Jim E. FeirBuneman instabilityPlasma physicsOscar BunemanChandrasekhar–Donnelly instabilityTaylor-Couette instability of Helium IISubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and R.J. DonnellyChandrasekhar–Friedman–Schutz instabilityInstability of rotating self-gravitating mass due to gravitational radiation dampingSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, John L. Friedman and Bernard F. SchutzCherenkov instabilityPlasma physicsPavel Alekseevich CherenkovChromo-Weibel instabilityPlasma physicsE. S. WeibelCrow instabilityAerodynamicsS. C. CrowDarrieus–Landau instabilityStability of propagating flameGeorges Jean Marie Darrieus and Lev LandauDean instabilityStability of flow in a curved pipeWilliam Reginald DeanD'yakov–Kontorovich instabilityStability of a plane shockS. P. D'yakov and Victor M. KontorovichFaraday instabilityVibrating fluid surfacesM. FaradayFarley–Buneman instabilityPlasma instabilityDonald T. Farley and Oscar BunemanGörtler instabilityStability of flow along a concave boundary layerH. GörtlerHolmboe instabilityStratified shear flowsJørgen HolmboeJeans instabilityStability of interstellar gas cloudsJames JeansKelvin–Helmholtz instabilityStability of shearing flowLord Kelvin and Hermann von HelmholtzKruskal–Shafranov instabilityPlasma physicsMartin David Kruskal and Vitaly ShafranovPeratt instabilityPlasma physicsAnthony PerattPlateau–Rayleigh instabilityStability of jets and dropsJoseph Plateau and Lord RayleighRayleigh–Bénard instabilityNatural convection, Rayleigh–Bénard convectionLord Rayleigh and Henri BénardRayleigh–Taylor instabilityInstability created by density stratificationLord Rayleigh and Geoffrey Ingram TaylorRichtmyer–Meshkov instabilityPlasma physics, AstrophysicsR. D. Richtmyer and E. E. MeshkovRoberts–Stewartson instabilityInstability of rotating self-gravitating mass due to viscosityPaul H. Roberts and Keith StewartsonSaffman–Taylor instabilityFlow in porous mediumPhilip Saffman and Geoffrey Ingram TaylorTaylor–Caulfield instabilityStratified shear flowsGeoffrey Ingram Taylor and Taylor–Couette instabilityFlow in rotating cylinderGeoffrey Ingram Taylor and Maurice Marie Alfred CouetteTollmien–Schlichting instabilityWave instability in shearing flowsWalter Tollmien and Hermann SchlichtingVelikhov instabilityPlasma physics Evgeny VelikhovVelikhov-Chandrasekhar instabilityStability of rotating fluid in magnetic fieldEvgeny Velikhov and Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharWeibel instabilityPlasma physicsE. S. Weibel