In no-wind conditions, wake vortices move outward laterally at approximately three knots. With light crosswinds, downwind vortices move at three knots plus the wind velocity, while upwind vortices ...

Wingtip vortices, a form of wake turbulence, are invisible, rapidly rotating air generated by aircraft wings producing lift, posing a significant hazard, especially to smaller aircraft. These vortices ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation states—so-called Floquet states—in tiny magnetic vortices. Unlike earlier experiments, ...

This is an image of some of the islands that make up the nation of Cape Verde. While most in that group of ten islands are flat, some are very tall: Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau. Those three ...

A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin material. When cooled, the material forms tiny magnetic vortices before ...

Learn how supercomputers simulate how dolphins create powerful vortices that push them forward and make them some of the fastest swimmers in the animal kingdom. Dolphins are among the fastest marine ...

Researchers have new insight about the formation of vortices in a type of quantum fluid, work that could help our comprehension of the physics mystery of how vortex clusters form and provide valuable ...