Kármán Vortex Street

When fluid flows past a cylinder at moderate Reynolds numbers, it undergoes a supercritical Hopf bifurcation — steady flow loses stability and a periodic alternating array of vortices (Kármán vortex street) forms. This lattice Boltzmann simulation resolves the vorticity field in real time.

Strouhal number St = f·D/U ≈ —