In 1907, he published a paper on what would later be known as the von Karman vortex street.
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Theodor von Karman identified and analyzed the flow behind objects like a cylinder and since then this special flow has been called the " Karman vortex street ".
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Attracting ( blue ) and repelling ( red ) LCSs extracted as FTLE ridges from a two-dimensional simulation of a von Karman vortex street ( Image : Jens Kasten)