The scattering of electromagnetic waves from counter-rotating vortex streets associated with nonlinear convective cells in uniform plasmas has been considered. The vortex street solution of the Navier–Stokes or the Hasegawa–Mima (and of the ‘‘sinh-Poisson’’) equation is adopted as a scatterer. Assuming arbitrary polarization and profile function for the incident electromagnetic field, a compact expression for the scattering cross section has been obtained. Specific results for the differential cross section are obtained for the case in which the incident beam has a Gaussian profile and propagates as an ordinary mode.
