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Laboratory studies of droplets in turbulence: towards understanding the formation of clouds

Published 18 December 2008 2009 The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics and IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Z Warhaft 2009 Fluid Dyn. Res. 41 011201 DOI 10.1088/0169-5983/41/1/011201

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Abstract

Recent developments in the study of droplet motion in turbulent flows are reviewed with emphasis on particle acceleration and clustering, and the effects of turbulence on raindrop formation. There is also some discussion of the relationship between laboratory experiments and field observations, of the history of laboratory experiments, and of the relationship between art and science in early cloud studies.

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10.1088/0169-5983/41/1/011201