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contributor authorWang, Pao K.
contributor authorJi, Wusheng
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:36:04Z
date available2017-06-09T14:36:04Z
date copyright2000/04/01
date issued2000
identifier issn0022-4928
identifier otherams-22571.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4159036
description abstractThe efficiencies with which ice crystals at low?intermediate Reynolds numbers collide with supercooled cloud droplets are determined numerically. Three ice crystal habits are considered here: hexagonal ice plates, broad-branch crystals, and columnar ice crystals. Their Reynolds numbers range from 0.1 to slightly beyond 100. The size of cloud droplets range from a few to about 100 ?m in radius. The collision efficiencies are determined by solving the equation of motion for a cloud droplet under the influence of the flow field of the falling ice crystal. The flow fields of the falling ice crystals were determined previously by numerically solving the unsteady Navier?Stokes equations. Features of these efficiencies are discussed. The computed efficiencies are compared with those obtained by previous investigators and improvements are indicated. New results fit better with the observed riming droplet sizes and cutoff riming ice crystal sizes.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleCollision Efficiencies of Ice Crystals at Low–Intermediate Reynolds Numbers Colliding with Supercooled Cloud Droplets: A Numerical Study
typeJournal Paper
journal volume57
journal issue8
journal titleJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1001:CEOICA>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage1001
journal lastpage1009
treeJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;2000:;Volume( 057 ):;issue: 008
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