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KARMAN VORTEX STREET [1 record]

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Record 1 2017-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
DEF

A double row of line vortices in a fluid.

CONT

... a Karman vortex street is shed in the make of bluff cylindrical bodies when the relative fluid velocity is perpendicular to the generators of the cylinder ... This periodic shedding of eddies occurs first from one side of the body and then from the other ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
CONT

Pour un solide en forme de cylindre circulaire, le sillage varie en fonction du nombre de Reynolds R [...] On passe du sillage laminaire pour R < 20 [...] à la formation de tourbillons symétriques pour 20 < R < 50 (sillage en cœur) puis de tourbillons alternés pour 50 < R < 2500 (sillage de Karman), puis d'un sillage à structure confuse.

Spanish

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