Sentence examples for rotating columns from inspiring English sources

This leads to a flow pattern organized into rotating columns that run parallel to the rotation axis through the height of the container.

The damage in Central Park, he said, was caused by strong wind, not the violently rotating columns of air characteristic of tornadoes.

Some fundamentals concerning the operation of PFCs as rotating columns are given in the paper.

Tornadoes are generally defined as rotating columns of air characterized by small size, axisymmetry and short duration.

Tornadoes, violently rotating columns of air spawned by thunderstorms, occur when available energy — warm, moist air at low levels and cold, drier air above — meets vertical wind shear, which provides the source of the rotation.

Conjugation between EAC TCL, DT, and M2 was slowly performed in small rotating columns.

According to the American Meteorological Society's official definition, a tornado is "a violently rotating column of air, pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud".

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud (otherwise known as a thundercloud) or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

A tornado is "a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud".

In this state, the pressure-gradient force, which acts to move air inward in response to the lower pressure in the centre of the rotating column, is equaled by the outward-directed centrifugal force.