Kármán vortex street

repeating pattern of swirling vortices caused by the unsteady separation of flow of a fluid around blunt bodies
Thing flow_type Q1044416
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Kármán vortex street

Summary

Kármán vortex street is a flow type[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of flow_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (387 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kármán vortex street's video is recorded as Karman Vortex Street Off Cylinder.ogv[3].
  • Kármán vortex street's image is recorded as Vortex-street-1.jpg[4].
  • Kármán vortex street's instance of is recorded as flow type[5].
  • Theodore von Kármán is named after Kármán vortex street[6].
  • Kármán vortex street's GND ID is recorded as 4163337-4[7].
  • Kármán vortex street's subclass of is recorded as fluid flow[8].
  • Kármán vortex street's Commons category is recorded as Von Kármán vortex streets[9].
  • Kármán vortex street's has part is recorded as vortex[10].
  • Kármán vortex street's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/040svh[11].
  • Kármán vortex street's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Von Kármán vortex streets[12].
  • Kármán vortex street's Commons gallery is recorded as Von Kármán vortex street[13].
  • Kármán vortex street's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Karmans-Vortex-Street[14].
  • Kármán vortex street's different from is recorded as Von Kármán swirling flow[15].
  • Kármán vortex street's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kármánsk_virvelgate[16].
  • Kármán vortex street's World of Physics ID is recorded as VortexStreet[17].
  • Kármán vortex street's World of Physics ID is recorded as KarmanVortexStreet[18].
  • Kármán vortex street's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[19].
  • Kármán vortex street's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 178904275[20].
  • Kármán vortex street's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C178904275[21].
  • Kármán vortex street's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/4835827a-167f-498d-87c2-e2b252a2d384[22].

Why It Matters

Kármán vortex street ranks in the top 7% of flow_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (387 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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