A numerical study of the flow fields around a typical conical graupel falling at various inclination angles

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-26

  Kubicek, Alexander ^a   Wang, Pao K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conical graupel; Flow fields; Navier Stokes equations; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SOFTWARE; COMPUTED FLOWS; CONICAL BODIES; CONICAL GRAUPEL; FLOW PROPERTIES; INCLINATION ANGLES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SIMULATING FLOWS; TIME-DEPENDENT NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; VELOCITY VECTORS; VORTEX SHEDDING FREQUENCY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLOW FIELDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLOW FIELD; FLOW VELOCITY; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 84862681471     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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