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TWO-DIMENSIONAL flow behind bluff symmetrical obstacles has received the attention of fluid dynamicists for more than half a century. Considerations of the Kármán vortex-street afford an excellent example of the agreement between theoretical and experimental results. Three-dimensional wakes have been investigated intensively, but are less tractable as they do not exhibit the same uniformity or periodicity as the two-dimensional vortex-trails.
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MAGARVEY, R., BISHOP, R. The Wake of a Moving Drop. Nature 188, 735–736 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188735a0
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