Autoren:	Theis, Alexander Borrmann, Stephan Mitra, Subir Kumar Heymsfield, Andrew J. Szakáll, Miklós
Titel:	A wind tunnel investigation into the aerodynamics of lobed hailstones
Online-Publikationsdatum:	27-Okt-2020
Erscheinungsdatum:	2020
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	The complex surface geometries of hailstones affect their fall behavior, fall speeds, and growth. Systematic experimental investigations on the influence of the number and length of lobes on the fall velocity and the drag coefficient of hailstones were performed in the Mainz vertical wind tunnel to provide relationships for use in numerical models. For this purpose, 3D prints of four artificial lobed hailstone models as well as spheres were used. The derived drag coefficients show no dependency in the Reynolds number in the range between 25,000 and 85,000. Further, the drag coefficients were found to increase with increasing length of lobes. All lobed hailstones show higher or similar drag coefficients than spheres. The terminal velocities of the the hailstones with short lobes are very close to each other and only reduced by about 6% from those of a sphere. The terminal velocities from the long lobed hailstones deviate up to 21% from a sphere. The results indicate that lobes on the surface of hailstones reduce their kinetic energy by a factor of up to 3 compared to a sphere. This has important consequences for the estimation of the destructive potential of hailstones.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	530 Physik 530 Physics
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 08 Physik, Mathematik u. Informatik
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5264
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Zeitschrift:	Atmosphere 11 5
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	Art. 494
Verlag:	MDPI AG
Verlagsort:	Basel, Switzerland
Erscheinungsdatum:	2020
ISSN:	2073-4433
URL der Originalveröffentlichung:	https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11050494
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.3390/atmos11050494
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	JGU-Publikationen