a regular stream of vortices or parallel streams of vortices carried downstream by the flow of a fluid over a body. These are sometimes made visible by vapour condensation as in the vortex trails from the wing tips of an aeroplane
See also Kármán vortex street, vortex shedding
Examples of 'vortex street' in a sentence
vortex street
The length and width of the vortex street are about 60-70 km and 20 km, respectively.
William G. Pichel, Cheng-Zhi Zou, Weizhong Zheng, Xiaofeng Li 2008, 'A SAR Observation and Numerical Study on Ocean Surface Imprints of Atmospheric VortexStreets', Sensorshttp://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/8/5/3321/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)