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As a preventive measure against false interpretations of the streakline pattern in unsteady flows, streaklines calculated for an isolated vortex and the infinite Kármán vortex street are presented, which appear to create a visual impression of apparent growth and flow reversal, while in reality they do not exist.
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Kurosaka et al. (1986) studied this question.
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