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The Karman vortex street in the wake of a circular cylinder is shown to be due to an absolute instability of the flow in the near wake. A new means of instability analysis is used, involving mappings from the complex k plane to the complex {ω} plane.
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Triantafyllou et al. (1987) studied this question.
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