COLLISION EFFICIENCY OF WATER DROPS IN THE ATMOSPHERE.

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A study has been made of the growth through collision of water drops in the atmosphere. The method of superposition of flow fields obtained from the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations was used for the calculations, and only inertia, gravity and drag force were considered. The calculated linear collision efficiency is significantly less than the geometric collision efficiency between a large collector drop and a small collecting drop because of the effect of hydrodynamic forces. The linear collision efficiency is substantially higher than the geometric collision efficiency between similarly sized drops because of the wake effect. Comparison with available experimental data verified the results.

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Lin, C. L., & Lee, S. C. (1975). COLLISION EFFICIENCY OF WATER DROPS IN THE ATMOSPHERE. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 32(7), 1412–1418. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1975)032<1412:ceowdi>2.0.co;2

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