Air Flow Through Tube Symmetry Issue?

In my experience this is expected behavior in regions where you would expect the flow to be separated and turbulent.

If you want to study these eddies and vortices which I see may be forming unsymmetrically in your plot, I would suggest learning how to use the LIC plot feature of Paraview.

You can see how well LIC plots present the actual flow lines in a planar view here:

Have fun ! :grinning:
Dale