Hurricanes on a soap bubble

'The experiment is simplicity itself, according to Hamid Kellay a physicist at the University of Bordeaux in France, who led the effort. First, you fill a beaker with a soapy solution. Then, "you take a straw and you make your bubble," he says.

The hemispherical bubble rests on top of the solution, which is heated to around 45 °C. As the solution warms, thermal plumes begin to form on the bubble's sides, and sometimes a large, single vortex, several centimetres in diameter, will form at the top.'

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080409/full/news.2008.746.html

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