A review on Rayleigh-Bénard convection influenced by the complicating factors

JJ Song, PX Li, L Chen, CH Li, BW Li… - … Communications in Heat …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal convection is one of the basic modes (thermal convection, thermal conduction,
thermal radiation) of heat transfer, and it belongs to the thermo-fluid mechanics. With the …

Scaling of turbulence and microphysics in a convection–cloud chamber of varying height

S Thomas, F Yang, M Ovchinnikov… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The convection–cloud chamber enables measurement of aerosol and cloud microphysics,
as well as their interactions, within a turbulent environment under steady‐state conditions …

Designing a convection‐cloud chamber for collision‐coalescence using large‐eddy simulation with bin microphysics

A Wang, M Ovchinnikov, F Yang… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Collisional growth of cloud droplets is an essential yet uncertain process for drizzle and
precipitation formation. To improve the quantitative understanding of this key component of …

An intercomparison of large‐eddy simulations of a convection cloud chamber using haze‐capable bin and Lagrangian cloud microphysics schemes

F Yang, F Hoffmann, RA Shaw… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent in situ observations show that haze particles exist in a convection cloud chamber.
The microphysics schemes previously used for large‐eddy simulations of the cloud chamber …

Fast and slow microphysics regimes in a minimalist model of cloudy Rayleigh-Bénard convection

RA Shaw, S Thomas, P Prabhakaran, W Cantrell… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
A minimalist model of microphysical properties in cloudy Rayleigh-Bénard convection is
developed based on mass and number balances for cloud droplets growing by vapor …

Cloud droplet size distributions governed by condensation, collision–coalescence, and sedimentation. Part 2: Analytical expressions for size distribution shape and …

J Kuntzleman, SK Krueger… - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Droplet growth via condensation and collision-coalescence has been investigated in the
limit of very weak coalescence growth: a collector-mode approximation emerges for …

An exploration of cloud droplet growth by condensation and collision-coalescence in a convection-cloud chamber

JT Kuntzleman - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Atmospheric clouds are crucial to weather and climate, and the rate at which droplets collide
and coalesce to form precipitation is one of the fundamental controlling processes. The …

Washing the air: enhanced condensation of water on aerosols to enable their removal

CF Clement - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Previous theory (Clement 1985 Proc. R. Soc. A 398, 307–339.) is applied to calculate water
vapour condensation on aerosol in a chamber with a hot water base, a cooled roof and …