Modeling aerosol dynamics : a stochastic algorithm

Edouard Debry, Benjamin Jourdain and Bruno Sportisse



Conference APMS, April 2001, Paris. To be published by Springer Geosciences 2001.


We present in this article a stochastic algorithm based mainly on [1],[2] and [3] applied to the integration of the General Dynamics Equation ( GDE ) for aerosols . This algorithm is validated by comparison with an analytical solution of a coagulation-condensation-evaporation model.

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