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Symmetric Shedding

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On the left, the cylinder sheds symmetric vortices of the same size.

On the right, the cylinder sheds vortices at the same time, but it alternates which side's vortex is larger.

With several shedding events stacked atop one another, the difference between the two shedding cases is even clearer.

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