Kármán vortex street

/ (ˈkɑːmən) /

noun

a regular stream of vortices shed from a body placed in a fluid stream: investigated by Kármán who advanced a formula for the frequency of the shed vortices in terms of the stream velocity and the dimensions of the body See also vortex street

Word Origin for Kármán vortex street

named after Theodore Von Kármán (1881–1963), Hungarian-born engineer