List of things named after Lord Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh was a physicist and mathematician who is the source of the following terms:
Science and Mathematics
- Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh
- Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality
- Rayleigh–Jeans law
- Rayleigh–Jeans law catastrophe, see Ultraviolet catastrophe
- Rayleigh–Ritz method; related: Rayleigh's method
- Rayleigh–Schrödinger perturbation theory
- Rayleigh's method of dimensional analysis
- Rayleigh's method, see also Rayleigh method
- Rayleigh criterion
- Rayleigh differential equation [1]
- Rayleigh distance
- Rayleigh distribution
- Rayleigh fading
- Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization
- Rayleigh length
- Rayleigh method, see also Rayleigh's method
- Either: the Rayleigh method (numerical analysis); or the similar Rayleigh–Ritz method
- See also: Rayleigh's method of dimensional analysis
- Rayleigh quotient
- Rayleigh scattering
- Rayleigh wave equation[2]
- Rayleigh waves
Fluid mechanics
- Plateau–Rayleigh instability
- Rayleigh–Bénard convection
- Rayleigh–Plesset equation
- Rayleigh–Taylor instability
- Rayleigh flow
- Rayleigh number
Astronomical objects
- 22740 Rayleigh
- Rayleigh 75°36′S 240°54′W / 75.6°S 240.9°W, a Martian crater
- Rayleigh (lunar crater)
Others
- Rayleigh Medal, awarded by the Institute of Acoustics
- Rayleigh Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics
See also
References
- ↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "Rayleigh Differential Equation." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RayleighDifferentialEquation.html
- ↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "Rayleigh Wave Equation." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RayleighWaveEquation.html
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