Ever see — or, if unlucky, experience the terror of — those... ...horizontal eddys that form at the base of a waterfall or dam? The ones that just sorta tumble things over and over again in an inescapable loop, drowning objects that aren't inanimate? *gestures everywhere*
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P.S. If there's a name for those formations, I'd like to know it. Couldn't figure it out.
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Replying to @generativist
Yes there is, and there are papers on it, and some good videos. Let me see if I can find them.
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Also, they drown animate objects mike kayakers.
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Yea I got rolled by one drunk tubing once. There were a few seconds of genuine terror and realization about what was happening and how I couldn’t find up.
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Here's the best of the videos I was thinking of.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYgODmmiAM …
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The term, BTW, is "hydraulic jump". Let me see if I can find the papers.
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Not a paper, but a nice set of slides. http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~pierre/ce_old/classes/CIVE%20401/projects%202015/Hydraulic%20Jumps%20(Lind,%20Mohammed,%20McCallum).pdf …
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