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A DNS Study of Bulk Flow Characteristics of a Transient Diabatic Plume that Simulates Cloud Flow

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Clouds are complex systems, and interaction among a wide range of scales makes the cloud parameterization problem “deadlocked”.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Samrat Rao

  2. Engineering Mechanics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, 560064, India

    G. R. Vybhav, S. M. Deshpande & R. Narasimha

  3. Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA

    P. Prasanth

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Rao, S., Vybhav, G.R., Prasanth, P., Deshpande, S.M., Narasimha, R. (2020). A DNS Study of Bulk Flow Characteristics of a Transient Diabatic Plume that Simulates Cloud Flow. In: Singh, B., Roy, A., Maiti, D. (eds) Recent Advances in Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1189-9_31

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