1.7K views · 62 reactions | A Kármán vortex street formed on Guadalupe Island last Saturday: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=27.79;-117.48;7&l=satellite&t=20200523/2150&w=off. This a wonderful example of how an island can affects the wind in large area. More information about this interesting event is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_vortex_street | Ventusky | Facebook

“The von Kármán vortex street is one of the most prominent and exquisite flow patterns observed in fluid dynamics. For a fluid flow past a cylinder (and other bluff bodies), flow separation and eventually alternating vortex shedding are observed in the wake at large Reynolds numbers where fluid inertia dominates the flow.” https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/dsx8-n7mr Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi E Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Shamoon Ahmed