Vladimir Iosifovich Petviashvili (Петвиашвили Владимир Иосифович; September 12, 1936 – July 21, 1993)[1] was a Soviet physicist from Georgia.

In 1992, Petviashvili received the I. Tamm Prize for a series of works on Turbulence and eddy current structures in plasma.

Seeking extensive applications for his results, Petviashvili put forward the idea of modeling drift turbulence in rapidly rotating shallow waters.

He laid the foundations for laboratory experiments employing this idea in his paper 'The Red Spot of Jupiter and Drift Solitons in a Plasma".

[3] These experiments have been successfully conducted at the Kurchatov Institute and other scientific research centers around the world.