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A study has been made of the development of a collision efficiency calculation model for the interaction of charged drops in an external electric field over an extended range of Reynolds numbers. The method of superposition of flow fields obtained from the numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in case of liquid drop was used for the calculations. The available Reynolds numbers range is 0 to 45. The model was developed as a program for IBM-PC compatible computers and has been tested with recently published data.
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Klimin, N.N., Rivkind, V.Y. & Pachin, V.A. Collision efficiency calculation model as a software tool for microphysics of electrified clouds. Meteorl. Atmos. Phys. 53, 111–120 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01031908
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