Turbulent condensation of droplets: Direct simulation and a stochastic model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 723-740

  Paoli, Roberto ^a,b,d   Shariff, Karim ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation   (France)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DROPLETS; DIRECT SIMULATION; DROPLET CONDENSATION; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; FLUID PARTICLES; HOMOGENEOUS ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LANGEVIN; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TURBULENT MIXING; WAVE NUMBERS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONDENSATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SUPERSATURATION; WATER VAPOR;

DROP FORMATION;

CLOUD DROPLET; CONDENSATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; SUPERSATURATION; TURBULENT FLOW; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 69849104075     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2734.1     Document Type: Article

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