S. Goujondurand et al., DOWNSTREAM EVOLUTION OF THE BENARD-VONKARMAN INSTABILITY, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 50(1), 1994, pp. 308-313
We describe experiments in the Benard-von Karman hydrodynamic instabil
ity of the vortex shedding behind an obstacle. We obtain the scaling l
aws for the evolution of the global mode describing the envelope of th
e peak to peak amplitude velocity oscillation of the flow velocity and
we show the existence of a universal curve for the renormalized ampli
tude of the streamwise evolution of this amplitude.