A tap that sends the water flowing through it into a swirling vortex pattern could help reduce the amount of water used by households. The designer of the Swirl tap claims the hollow vortex of water ...

You walk into an empty room by the sea, to find a perfectly circular hole punched out of the concrete floor where a vortex of water swirls and crashes with perfect rhythm. It sounds like an optical ...

Water waves can gain energy when they scatter from a whirlpool-like vortex. That is the conclusion of physicists in Brazil, Canada and the UK, who are the first to observe a phenomenon called ...

When the drain of a sink or tank is opened, the increasing gravitational pull causes the water to approach the hole in a smooth, uniform flow initially. When the drain of a sink or tank is opened, the ...

Did you know that ocean waves that come across a current from a different direction can turn into a violent, rapidly swirling tornado-like whirlpool? This can also happen if a current flows over an ...