Cloud-Chamber Droplet Growth and Evaporation
- 15 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 45 (12) , 4612-4616
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1727544
Abstract
A droplet‐growth law used by Fletcher and others to study growth of cloud droplets is modified for cloud‐chamber conditions. Growth and evaporation of cloud‐chamber droplets are investigated using the Becker—Döring nucleation rate law, following the step‐by‐step growth of droplets, and correcting nominal supersaturation obtained from the adiabatic process equation for vapor depletion. Drop‐count and drop‐size results obtained are in reasonable agreement with observations.Keywords
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