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  2. Vortex shedding - Wikipedia

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    Vortex shedding as winds pass Heard Island (bottom left) in the southern Indian Ocean resulted in this Kármán vortex street in the clouds 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) body at certain velocities, depending on the size ...

  3. Kármán vortex street - Wikipedia

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    Visualisation of the vortex street behind a circular cylinder in air; the flow is made visible through release of glycerol vapour in the air near the cylinder. In fluid dynamics, a 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 is responsible for the unsteady separation of flow of a fluid ...

  4. Horseshoe vortex - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, the simpler horseshoe vortex model used with a reduced effective wingspan but same mid-plane circulation provides an adequate model for the flows induced far from the aircraft. The term horseshoe vortex is also used in wind engineering to describe the flow pattern created by strong winds around the base of a tall building. This ...

  5. Tower - Wikipedia

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    Many very tall towers have their support structures at the periphery of the building, which greatly increases the overall stiffness. A third limit is dynamic; a tower is subject to varying winds, vortex shedding, seismic disturbances etc.

  6. Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) - Wikipedia

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    Vortex shedding and Kármán vortex street behind a circular cylinder. The first hypothesis of the failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was resonance (due to the Kármán vortex street). [ 29 ] This is because it was thought that the Kármán vortex street frequency (the so-called Strouhal frequency ) was the same as the torsional natural ...

  7. Strouhal number - Wikipedia

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    The parameter is named after Vincenc Strouhal, a Czech physicist who experimented in 1878 with wires experiencing vortex shedding and singing in the wind. [1] [2] The Strouhal number is an integral part of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics. The Strouhal number is often given as =,

  8. Adrian Smith (architect) - Wikipedia

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    Bloomberg Businessweek 'Shedding the Vortex' March 24, 2014; Popular Science 'The Rise of the Supertall' February 15, 2013 Archived June 29, 2019, at the Wayback Machine; Modern Luxury 'On Top of the World' March 15, 2012; The Wall Street Journal 'The State of Super-Tall Towers' July 8, 2011

  9. Vortex-induced vibration - Wikipedia

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    Numerical simulation of vortex-induced vibrations due to the flow around a circular cylinder. [1] In fluid dynamics, vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) are motions induced on bodies interacting with an external fluid flow, produced by, or the motion producing, periodic irregularities on this flow. A classic example is the VIV of an underwater ...