To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs: These tiny swirls of fluid live, die, reproduce, and spark turbulence.
The water is always running in Björn Hof’s laboratory.
Like a Zen water fountain, it gently flows over the top of a reservoir into a tube, and from there into a glass pipe 15 meters long, but thinner than a glass thermometer. To keep the flow as smo