A wind tunnel study of the effects of collision processes on the shape and oscillation for moderate-size raindrops

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 142, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-78

  Szakáll, Miklós ^a   Kessler, Simon ^a   Diehl, Karoline ^a   Mitra, Subir K ^a   Borrmann, Stephan ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breakup; Coalescence; Drop collision; Raindrop oscillation; Viscous damping; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DAMPING; DROP BREAKUP; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; WIND TUNNELS;

COLLISION EXPERIMENTS; COLLISIONAL EXCITATION; EFFECTS OF COLLISIONS; HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS; RAINDROP OSCILLATION; TRANSVERSE OSCILLATION; VERTICAL WIND TUNNEL; VISCOUS DAMPING;

DROPS;

COALESCENCE; DAMPING; DIGITAL IMAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WIND FIELD; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84895888594     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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