Above: A Von Karman vortex street downwind of the Canary Island chain in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa on Feb. 27, 2015. Image credit: NASA Worldview. Editor's note ...
These unique cloud street patterns are called von Kármán vortex streets, named after the co-founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and one of the first scientists to describe this type of ...
The vortex meter operates on the von Kármán effect, first documented by Hungarian-American physicist, aerospace engineer, and mathematician Theodore von Kármán. He observed the formation of vortices ...