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The gravitational settling velocity of small heavy particles in a three-dimensional turbulent flow remains a controversial topic. In a homogeneous turbulence of zero mean velocity, both enhanced settling velocity and reduced settling velocity have been reported relative to the still-fluid terminal velocity. Dominant mechanisms for enhanced settling include the preferential sweeping and particleparticle hydrodynamic interactions. The reduced settling could result from loitering (falling particles spend more time in the regions with upward flow), vortex trapping, and drag nonlinearity. Here high-resolution direct numerical simulations (DNS) are used to investigate the settling velocity of non-interacting small heavy particles, for an extended range of flow Taylor microscale Reynolds numbers (up to R λ = 500) with varying particle terminal velocity (relative to

We study the dynamic and kinematic collision statistics of cloud droplets for a range of flow Taylor microscale Reynolds numbers (up to 500), using a highly scalable hybrid direct numerical simulation approach. Accurate results of radial relative velocity (RRV) and radial distribution function (RDF) at contact have been obtained by taking advantage of their power-law scaling at short separation distances. Three specific but inter-related questions have been addressed in a systematic manner for geometric collisions of same-size droplets (of radius from 10 to 60 µm) in a typical cloud turbulence (dissipation rate at 400 cm 2 s −3 ). Firstly, both deterministic and stochastic forcing schemes were employed to test the sensitivity of the simulation results on the largescale driving mechanism. We found that, in general, the results are quantitatively similar, with the deterministic forcing giving a slightly larger RDF and collision 6