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Articles | Volume 16, issue 14
Articles | Volume 16, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4193-2023
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 14
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26 Jul 2023
Development and technical paper |  | 26 Jul 2023

Breakups are complicated: an efficient representation of collisional breakup in the superdroplet method

Emily de Jong, John Ben Mackay, Oleksii Bulenok, Anna Jaruga, and Sylwester Arabas

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In clouds, collisional breakup occurs when two colliding droplets splinter into new, smaller fragments. Particle-based modeling approaches often do not represent breakup because of the computational demands of creating new droplets. We present a particle-based breakup method that preserves the computational efficiency of these methods. In a series of simple demonstrations, we show that this representation alters cloud processes in reasonable and expected ways.
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