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    In fluid dynamics, vortex shedding is an oscillating flow that takes place when a fluid such as air or water flows past a bluff (as opposed to streamlined)...
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  • Kármán vortex street (or a von Kármán vortex street) is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices, caused by a process known as vortex shedding, which...
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    In fluid dynamics, a vortex (pl.: vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or...
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    large-scale vortical structures. Aeroelastic flutter Kármán vortex street Vortex power Vortex shedding Cfm.: Placzek, A.; Sigrist, J.-F.; Hamdouni, A. (2009)...
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  • through the turbine and is deflected into vortices in a process called vortex shedding. This technology has some traits that are similar to solar power than...
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    the so-called vortex shedding. This is because bluff (non-streamlined) bodies — like bridge decks — in a fluid stream produce (or "shed") wakes, whose...
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    a Czech physicist who experimented in 1878 with wires experiencing vortex shedding and singing in the wind. The Strouhal number is an integral part of...
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  • of Vincenc Strouhal, who first deduced the relationship between the vortex shedding frequency around a cylinder and the flow speed. The characteristic...
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    resulting from vortex shedding tends to govern the onset of flow-induced resonance, with a forcing frequency equal to the vortex shedding rate. In liquids...
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  • The transverse force—perpendicular to the flow direction, due to vortex shedding—has to be addressed separately. The Morison equation contains two empirical...
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