Sentences with phrase «vortex formed»

Using a whisk, vigorously swirl water until a vortex forms in the center.
When such a vortex forms vertically, a tornado can result.
When smoke hits the leading edge of the Flapper's wing, you do see a vortex form, but that vortex immediately takes a sharp turn and spirals out along the wing toward the tip.
(Left) Fine structures of a KFe2Se2 superconductor, which has FeSe layers (Right) STM image of Josephson vortices formed in a surface atomic layer superconductor
Coherent vortices form in these simulations and are recognizable in the vorticity fields.
It was shown that the detected earlier ∼ 60 - year oscillations of the amplitude and sign of SA / GCR effects on the troposphere pressure at high and middle latitudes (Veretenenko and Ogurtsov, Adv.Space Res., 2012) are closely related to the state of a cyclonic vortex forming in the polar stratosphere.

Not exact matches

General Fusion's system uses a sphere, filled with molten lead - lithium that is pumped to form a vortex.
These vortices were formed when the winds moving east across the northern Pacific encountered the Aleutian Islands.
In addition to new understanding of the forces governing microswimmers and their environments, the vortex technique could help prevent biofilms from forming and disrupting microfluidic devices, the authors suggested.
Specifically, they looked at regions where the fluid formed discrete vortices — that is, places where the water moved in a self - contained pattern such that, if one were to draw an invisible loop around it, no material would cross that line.
But Schultz and Quintana showed that when the plume strikes a raised surface feature, it disturbs the flow and causes powerful tornadic vortices to form and drop to the surface.
According to Hassanzadeh, the same vertical flow could explain why oceanic vortices, such as those formed near the Straits of Gibraltar, can last for years in the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2000, three smaller, white storms merged to form the second - largest vortex on Jupiter; a few months ago, that giant white spot started to turn ruddy.
The creation of density fluctuations in the form of quantum vortices may be what led to the early formation of galaxies.
The team found that quantum vortices, or whirlpools, form in spinning helium nanodroplets in unprecedented quantities, leading to extreme deformation of the droplets into flat discs that resemble a thick pancake.
As such, in a superfluid droplet, the rotation is evenly distributed in vortices, which allows the droplet to withstand stunningly large rotation speeds without forming lobes or disintegrating.
An updraft allows a tighter and faster rotation of the vortex, which forms the tornado.
«The lattice Boltzmann method allowed us to identify regions of low air flow and places where vortices of air flow formed,» study coauthor Sungchan Hong says.
Wind vortices blowing across the crater slowly formed a radial moat in the sediment, eventually leaving only the off - center Mount Sharp, a 3 - mile - high peak similar in height to the rim of the crater.
These defects «pin» in place, or trap, the microscopic magnetic vortices that form when the superconductor is placed in a strong magnetic field, such as those generated by magnets in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.
In one well - known example of this fact, the Crow Instability causes the vortices to develop symmetric sinusoidal oscillations and eventually to merge and form vortex rings behind the jet.
As the air flows around your arm, it forms vortices that come off the top and bottom of your arm in an alternating fashion.
Understanding exactly how water moves in a vortex could help us learn how storms form and let us make better models of the sun's plasma.
The resulting disturbance can form a self - sustaining low - pressure vortex, or what is called a tropical depression; as the system intensifies it becomes a tropical storm.
That's because one way Kuiper belt objects might have formed in situ, Parker says, is under an emerging model of planet formation in which turbulences and vortexes in the protoplanetary nebula allow many tiny particles to coalesce extremely rapidly into big ones.
«We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate,» said Agustín Sánchez - Lavega from the University of the Basque Country in Spain.
The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.
Pancake - shaped clouds above the spot form when ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the vortex.
The second vortex study, led by Mawet, presents an image of the innermost of three rings of dusty planet - forming material around the young star called HD 141569 A.
The first science images and results from the vortex instrument demonstrate its ability to image planet - forming regions hidden under the glare of stars.
This image suggests that the polar vortex clouds form at a much higher altitude, where sunlight can still reach, than the surrounding haze.
Fairly recent science says that lack of sea ice also means the Jet Stream, and the Polar Vortex, will be disturbed, forming unnatural bends, tending to settle for longer, moving slower.
Winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two - thirds of the United States.
According to the authors of the study, who used geological observations made using the THEMIS instrument on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling of impact processes, large crater - forming impacts would have created tornado - like wind vortices that reached speeds of up to 500 miles per hour.
Suddenly, a vortex is formed and sucks Mario and the others in.
Those seeking the ultimate in style and performance will now find it in the new F - TYPE R Convertible, available in RWD and AWD form and replacing the RWD - only 364kW F - TYPE V8 S. Jaguar's renowned 5.0 - litre V8 combines direct injection and a twin - vortex supercharger to provide immediate response to the driver's request for power.
The epitome of function over form, it goes even further than its predecessor, offering vortex generators, an even smoother underbody, a front «air curtain» and the mother of all rear wings.
A mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change.
Fiction Vortex is betting on some form of serial, episodic, collaborative content.
Infinity within a minute becomes a frantic, demented test, not least when vortexes and space storms are hurled into the mix, your only brief respite coming in the form of sporadic «slow down» and energy power - ups.
His media work has been featured at festivals such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrück, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, OVNI in Barcelona, the New York Video Festival, the Migrating Forms Festival, Video Dumbo and Video Vortex.
The steady vertical divisions of the canvas and the vortex of curved forms that converge from the corners are compositional elements that committed formalists will follow from wall to wall in the show.
Moving from one drawing to the next the viewer will also discover thickets of angled sticks; lightly rendered floating lozenges; surprisingly colored vortexes; compilations of line passing as broad brushed symbols; hermetic compositions repeating within the same drawing; forgotten hieroglyphs becoming form; atmospheres menacing and combative and others lighter than the last wisp of sun - dissipated fog.
Their genesis traceable to Bell's obsession with the finishes he developed and eventually released from his minimal glass works, the two - dimensional CS paintings are composed from abstract forms that appear as a shimmering vortex of light, creating the illusion of three - dimensional, highly sculptural space.
The amorphous graphite and charcoal fields in her works on paper, conversely, suggest vortices of depth and motion, and are both unsettling and exhilarating in their free - form abstraction.
Internationally renowned for creating monumental wood and metal sculptures, James Surls bases his work on natural forms, applying his unique «imagery of diamonds, vortexes, needles and flowers.»
Most recently, her large - scale paintings and glass - and 3D - printed sculptures articulate the relationship between natural forms such as the wave, the vortex, and the helix, with planes of sight and human gesture.
An abstracted figurative style, combining machine - age forms and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex, this movement emerged in London at a moment when the staid English art scene had been jolted by the advent of French Cubism and Italian Futurism.
Each winter the sun goes away and a strong «polar vortex» forms.
Rather it claims that decreased ozone increases the velocity of the circumpolar vortex, thus breaking up pack ice and allowing more ice to form at the surface, thereby contributing to greater sea ice extent.
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