Collisions of small drops in a turbulent flow. Part I: Collision efficiency. Problem formulation and preliminary results

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2585-2600

  Pinsky, M ^a   Khain, Alexander P ^a   Shapiro, M ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DROP FORMATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

COLLISION EFFICIENCY; STOKESIAN DROPLETS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

DROPLET; FLOW VELOCITY; TURBULENT FLOW;

DROPLET; FLOW VELOCITY; STOKES FORMULA; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0032763975     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2585:COSDIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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