Recent Examples on the WebTop, vortical flows on P. damicornis by Shapiro et al.—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2014 Spinning on a vortical current of their own creation and vanishing into a dark hole.—Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021 Hydrogen, oxygen and all other atoms were, deep down, just different types of vortical knots.—Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2015 The other route is the chiral vortical symmetry, which requires that the plasma be rotating.—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2017
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