We suspect the latter reason is what got [Brick Technology] to pursue creating a trippy water vortex with the building toy. The first design uses a transparent plastic sphere as a water vessel.
[Ben Krasnow’s] water vortex machine has been an exhibit in the lobby of the San Jose City Hall for quite some time now. Unfortuantely he recently had to perform some repair work on it due to ...
Manta rays are elegantly shaped. They swim by flapping their fins like enormous wings, and their gills filter for plankton ...
In order to better understand the influence mesoscale eddies have on the global climate system, these large water vortices must be rendered in three dimensions to model how eddy heat and mass ...
"This vortex is not blocking water, but it is blocking particles," Hosoi explains. "Whereas in a slower flow, particles go through the filter with the water, at higher flow rates, particles try to ...
However, as the flow rate increased, the water began to swirl at the entrance of each groove, forming vortices. This vortex formation prevented particles from passing through the filter.