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🌀 Flow Past a Cylinder: Reynolds Number & Vortex Shedding

Stream thousands of massless tracer particles past a cylinder and watch the wake transform from smooth laminar flow to a periodic Kármán vortex street as the Reynolds number climbs.

Physics & Mechanics3DModerate60 FPS

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Stream thousands of massless tracer particles past a cylinder and watch the wake transform from smooth laminar flow to a periodic Kármán vortex street as the Reynolds number climbs.

Three.jsFluid DynamicsReynolds NumberVortex Shedding

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