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11.10 Vortex Shedding

The Vortex Shedding is an oscillating flow phenomenon that takes place, when a fluid such as air flows over a bluff body at certain velocities, depending on the shape and size of the body. In this vortex flow, vortices are created at the back of the bluff body and detach periodically from either side of the body forming a Von Kármán vortex street. The flow creates alternating low-pressure vortices on the downstream of the object.

This tutorial to demonstrate vortex shedding includes:

1. Problem overview: A description and schematic of the problem, explaining the conditions involved in the modelling.
2. Setting up the model: Building the simulation domain, specifying the physics and conditions.
3. Performing simulations: Steps to run the simulation.
4. Post processing: Analysis of the simulation results.