The Navier–Stokes equations are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances. They were named after French engineer and physicist Claude-Louis Navier and the Irish physicist and mathematician George Gabriel Stokes. They were developed over several decades of progressively building the theories, from 1822 (Navier) to 1842–1850 (Stokes).
Claude-Louis Navier
George Gabriel Stokes
Wire model of flow lines along a Hopf fibration.
Claude-Louis Navier was a French mechanical engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
Bust of Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées