I am getting into computational fluid dynamics (CFD). One of my professors mentioned that a cylindrical wake would be a good starting point to learn about turbulence modelling when using CFD software. I'm not a native speaker, so I googled cylindrical wake CFDbut the results confuse me (also the translations of my dictionary). How is wake defined in the context of CFD and what is a good resource to read up on it?
What is a wake in the context of CFD?
fluid dynamics;reference request
The two comments above are good for the definition of a wake, but in the case of the flow around the cylinder in 2D, the von Karman vortex street is the canonical problem that your professor was talking about.