"... the effect on final results of droplets that do not freeze completely on the cylinders"
"Impingement of Cloud Droplets and Procedure for Measuring Liquid-Water Content and Droplet Sizes in Supercooled Clouds by Rotating Multicylinder Method" [Thermodynamics topics] 1
Summary
Conditions where not all water drops freeze are considered.
Key points
- Conditions where not all water drops freeze on the multicylinder instrument are considered.
- Rotating cylinder Ludlam limits are compared to flight test data.
Abstract
read moreEvaluation of the rotating multicylinder method for the measurement of droplet-size distribution, volume-median droplet size, and liquid-water content in clouds showed that small uncertainties in the basic data eliminate the distinction between different cloud droplet-size distributions and are a source of large errors in the determination of the droplet size. Calculations of the trajectories of cloud droplets in incompressible and compressible flow fields around a cylinder were performed on a mechanical analog constructed for the study …