variants
also vortexes
as in gulfs
water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the center
a boat sucked down into the vortex
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Amenities and Entertainment The panoramic pool area on Deck 10 features the main pool and two whirlpools; the Ritz-Carlton Spa has 11 treatment rooms offering massages and other treatments, with products from ESPA, 111SKIN, and Pisterzi.—
Amanda Eyre Ward,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Sep. 2025 -
These turbulent flows, resembling whirlpools, are notoriously complex and have long posed significant challenges for accurate modeling.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, in two of the four cases with moderate bubble size and density, the turbulence in the flow closely followed Kolmogorov’s predictions at small scales for eddies smaller than the size of the bubbles.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Vortices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vortices. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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