von Kármán vortex street

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Etymology

After Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán.

Noun

von Kármán vortex street (plural von Kármán vortex streets)

  1. (physics) A double row of vortices in a fluid sometimes found in the wake of a cylindrical body (such as in a river, downstream of a bridge support), eddies being produced from alternate sides of the body.

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