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The street, as two rows of point vortices

The street, as two rows of point vortices
The street, as two rows of point vortices. The exact velocity field of a staggered double row of point vortices at the stable spacing ratio, with the row spacing and the circulation of one core printed from a line integral of the field rather than from the number that built it. This is a model of a wake. It contains no body, no viscosity and no mechanism that would shed anything, and the viscous stepper used here does not produce a street at any Reynolds number.

The exact velocity field of a staggered double row of point vortices at the stable spacing ratio, with the row spacing and the circulation of one core printed from a line integral of the field rather than from the number that built it. This is a model of a wake. It contains no body, no viscosity and no mechanism that would shed anything, and the viscous stepper used here does not produce a street at any Reynolds number.

3 essays call karman-model. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing karman-model changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

Where it is called

What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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