Winds blowing over South Korea’s Jeju island Thursday gave rise to a chain of magnificent swirling clouds known as von Karman vortex streets. Satellite images show beautiful whirlpool-shaped cloud ...

An artistic pressions of a vortex-ring street analogue to the structure of magnetic field of a NDSTP, where the right- and left- handed vortex rings were highlighted by blue and red, respectively. The ...

The Karman Vortex Street isn’t someplace you’d want to take up residence — it’s literally the path of destruction, where buildings collapse and destruction reigns. Unfortunately, under the right ...

Life is complex. So is fluid dynamics. Actually, you’d think fluid motion isn’t all that complicated. Liquids flow downhill, moving around stationary objects, and generally going from point A to point ...

ONE of the most interesting phenomena observed in fluid flow is that of vortex shedding, the best known example of which is the von Kármán vortex street behind a cylinder or similar obstacles normal ...

The epicenter of the Chinese electronics scene drew a lot of attention this week as a 70-story skyscraper started wobbling in exactly the way skyscrapers shouldn’t. The 1,000-ft (305-m) SEG Plaza ...