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A fresh attack has been made in the last 15 years on the long-standing problem of the counter-intuitive nature of entrainment in clouds. Experimental and computational studies show that turbulent jets and plumes subjected to off-source heating, simulating latent heat release on condensation of water vapour in a cloud, illuminate many aspects of the fluid dynamics of clouds. The paper presents a review and a critical reanalysis of published results.
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Narasimha, R., Bhat, G.S. (2008). Recent Experimental and Computational Studies Related to the Fluid Dynamics of Clouds. In: Kaneda, Y. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6472-2_48
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