Articles | Volume 20, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9087-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9087-2020
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31 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 31 Jul 2020

Diffusional growth of cloud droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence: DNS, scaled-up DNS, and stochastic model

Lois Thomas, Wojciech W. Grabowski, and Bipin Kumar

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This work presents an extension of a classical small-scale modeling approach, direct numerical simulation (DNS), to large computational volumes, tens and hundreds of meters on the side. Diffusional growth of cloud droplets is more significantly affected by large scales of turbulent motions because vertical velocity perturbations associated with those scales result in larger and longer-lasting supersaturation perturbations that affect the spread of the droplet spectrum.
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