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🌀 Kármán Vortex Street

3D flow lab built in Blender and Three.js: a water flume whose surface, dye and instruments follow a lattice Boltzmann simulation of the von Karman vortex street.

Fluid Dynamics & Aerodynamics3DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender⇄ 2D version

⚙ Under the hood

3D water-flume lab: a lattice Boltzmann (D2Q9, BGK) vortex street behind a cylinder drives the surface, dye and instruments. Adjustable Reynolds number, body shape, fluid and colour field, with a live Strouhal check.

Karman Vortex StreetLattice BoltzmannReynolds NumberStrouhal NumberBlenderThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install